Radeon R5 230 OEM vs GeForce RTX 3050 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 OEM and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R5 230 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (19W vs 130W)
GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1755MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)
2144 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R5 230 OEM
200
GeForce RTX 3050 OEM
+3943%
8087
Graphics Card
Dec 2013
Release Date
Jan 2022
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1515 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1755 MHz
667 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
8GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
10.67GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
2
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
18
160
Shading Units
2304
8
TMUs
72
4
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
72
-
RT Cores
18
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
2.500 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.16 GPixel/s
5.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
126.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
8.087 TFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.087 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
126.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
19W
TDP
130W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Caicos
GPU Name
GA106
Caicos PRO
GPU Variant
GA106-150-KA-A1
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
40 nm
Process Size
8 nm
0.37 billion
Transistors
12 billion
67 mm²
Die Size
276 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
5.0
Shader Model
6.6