NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1777MHz vs 1600MHz)

Lower TDP (130W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +44%

13.11 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jul 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

1382 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

64

2560

Shading Units

4096

80

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Vega 10

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX LCS

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 5.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

375W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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