AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 285 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1755MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285

3.29 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +145%

8.087 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

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GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jan 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1515 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1755 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

18

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

2304

112

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.16 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

126.4 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.087 TFLOPS

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.087 TFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

126.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

GA106

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5 billion

Transistors

12 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

190W

TDP

130W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

8.6

6.5

Shader Model

6.6

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