Radeon Graphics (Ryzen 9000) vs GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	201	not rated
Place by popularity	24	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	76.13	no data
Power efficiency	27.15	no data
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2024)	RDNA 3+
GPU code name	GA107	no data
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	2 February 2024 (less than a year ago)	no data
Launch price (MSRP)	$179	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2304	128
Core clock speed	1042 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	1470 MHz	2200 MHz
Number of transistors	8,700 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	no data
Power consumption (TDP)	70 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	105.8	no data
Floating-point processing power	6.774 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	32	no data
TMUs	72	no data
Tensor Cores	72	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	18	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	no data
Length	242 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR6	no data
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	no data
Memory bus width	96 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	168.0 GB/s	no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	no data
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12_2
Shader Model	6.7	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	3.0	no data
Vulkan	1.3	-
CUDA	8.6	-

Pros & cons summary

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