NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 90% (1777MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 +172%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

2560

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA107-150-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

4.313 billion

Unknown

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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