NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 580

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB AMD Radeon RX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 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 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 33% (1777MHz vs 1340MHz)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +47%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580

6.175 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +43%

6247

Radeon RX 580

4359

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +17%

20

Radeon RX 580

17

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +20%

42

Radeon RX 580

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +64%

82

Radeon RX 580

50

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +7%

29

Radeon RX 580

27

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +20%

65

Radeon RX 580

54

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +5%

82

Radeon RX 580

78

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

48

Radeon RX 580 +25%

60

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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Radeon RX 580

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

1257 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

2560

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

185W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

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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