NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM and AMD Radeon RX 580X 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

AMD Radeon RX 580X

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 21% higher core clock speed: 1515 MHz vs 1257 MHz
Around 31% higher boost clock speed: 1755 MHz vs 1340 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 14 nm
Around 42% lower typical power consumption: 130 Watt vs 185 Watt
Around 45% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 952 vs 657
Around 85% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11931 vs 6459
Around 45% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 60490 vs 41822

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 Jan 2022 vs 3 April 2018
Core clock speed	1515 MHz vs 1257 MHz
Boost clock speed	1755 MHz vs 1340 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	130 Watt vs 185 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	952 vs 657
PassMark - G3D Mark	11931 vs 6459
Geekbench - OpenCL	60490 vs 41822

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580X

Around 53% higher texture fill rate: 192.96 GTexel/s vs 126.4 GTexel/s
4.6x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Texture fill rate	192.96 GTexel/s vs 126.4 GTexel/s
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 580X

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

952

657

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

11931

6459

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

60490

41822

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM	AMD Radeon RX 580X
PassMark - G2D Mark	952	657
PassMark - G3D Mark	11931	6459
Geekbench - OpenCL	60490	41822
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	6262
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	208.389
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2525.393
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	19.12
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	89.917
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	808.367
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		11616
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		11616
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		4909
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		4909
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		18294
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		18294

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM	AMD Radeon RX 580X
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 4.0
Code name	GA106	Polaris 20
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	3 April 2018
Place in performance rating	197	194
Design		Radeon RX 500X Series
GCN generation		4th Gen
Type		Desktop, Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1755 MHz	1340 MHz
Core clock speed	1515 MHz	1257 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	14 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	2304
Pixel fill rate	56.16 GPixel/s	42.88 GP/s
Texture fill rate	126.4 GTexel/s	192.96 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	130 Watt	185 Watt
Transistor count	12000 million	5,700 million
Compute units		36
Floating-point performance		6.2 TFLOPs
Render output units		32
Stream Processors		2304
Texture Units		144
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
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	241 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	300 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 8-pin
Width	112 mm, 4.4 inches
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	256 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	8000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
TrueAudio
VR Ready