AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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AMD Radeon RX 580 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

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

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)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +47%

9.098 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 580

4359

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +43%

6247

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 580

17

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +17%

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 580

35

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +20%

42

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 580

50

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +64%

82

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 580

27

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +7%

29

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 580

54

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +20%

65

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 580

78

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +5%

82

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 580 +25%

60

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

48

Radeon RX 580

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GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2022

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

1552 MHz

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

2560

144

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GA106

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

12 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

130W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-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

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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