NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM and AMD Radeon R9 295X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 72% higher boost clock speed: 1755 MHz vs 1018 MHz
58x more texture fill rate: 126.4 GTexel/s vs 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 28 nm
3.8x lower typical power consumption: 130 Watt vs 500 Watt
Around 40% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1250 MHz
Around 29% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 970 vs 752
Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11911 vs 8681

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 Jan 2022 vs 29 April 2014
Boost clock speed	1755 MHz vs 1018 MHz
Texture fill rate	126.4 GTexel/s vs 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	130 Watt vs 500 Watt
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1250 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	970 vs 752
PassMark - G3D Mark	11911 vs 8681

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 295X2

2.4x more pipelines: 2x 2816 vs 2304

Pipelines	2x 2816 vs 2304

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 295X2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

970

752

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

11911

8681

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
PassMark - G2D Mark	970	752
PassMark - G3D Mark	11911	8681
Geekbench - OpenCL	60604
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1329	0
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	210.151
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2513.128
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	18.875
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	81.395
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	806.848

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 2.0
Code name	GA106	Vesuvius
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	29 April 2014
Place in performance rating	205	203
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,499
Price now		$1,099.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		11.14
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1755 MHz	1018 MHz
Core clock speed	1515 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	126.4 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	8.087 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	8.087 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2304	2x 2816
Pixel fill rate	56.16 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	126.4 GTexel/s	2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	130 Watt	500 Watt
Transistor count	12000 million	6,200 million
Floating-point performance		2x 5,733 gflops
Stream Processors		5632
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	242 mm, 9.5 inches	307 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	300 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	2 x 8-pin
Width	112 mm, 4.4 inches
Bus support		PCIe 2.1 x16
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	640 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	1250 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)