
nvidia
Brand4GB GDDR6
Memory2048
Cores192 GB/s
BandwidthNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

amd
Brand3GB GDDR5
Memory2048
Cores288 GB/s
BandwidthAMD Radeon R9 280X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
$199 • Jan 2022
Radeon R9 280X
$299 • Oct 2013
AMD Radeon R9 280X

Specs Comparison
Specification | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB | AMD Radeon R9 280X |
---|---|---|
Memory Size | 4 GB | 3 GB |
Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR5 |
TDP | 90 W | 250 W |
Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
Boost Clock | 1740 MHz | 1000 MHz |
Memory Bandwidth | 192 GB/s | 288 GB/s |
Process Size | 8nm | 28nm |
Architecture | Ampere | GCN 1.0 |
Shading Units | 2048 | 2048 |
RT Cores | 16 | N/A |
TMUs | 64 | 128 |
ROPs | 32 | 32 |
Memory Bus | 128-bit | 384-bit |
Memory Clock | 1500 MHz | 1500 MHz |
Pixel Rate | 55.68 GPixel/s | 32 GPixel/s |
Texture Rate | 192 GTexel/s | 288 GTexel/s |
FP32 Performance | 7.127 GFLOPS | 4.096 GFLOPS |
L2 Cache | 2.00 MB | 0.75 MB |
Die Size | 200 mm² | 352 mm² |
Transistors | 8700 Million | 4313 Million |
Required PSU | 250 W | 600 W |
Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
Bus Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
DirectX | 12.2 | 11.1 |
Vulkan | 1.3 | N/A |
OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
Foundry | Samsung | TSMC |
Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks


3DMark Time Spy
Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads
Graphics Score
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
AMD Radeon R9 280X


Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
AMD Radeon R9 280X


GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
AMD Radeon R9 280X


PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
AMD Radeon R9 280X
Game Benchmarks Comparison
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB Wins!
Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
NVIDIA • 4GB GDDR6

AMD Radeon R9 280X
AMD • 3GB GDDR5
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