AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Polaris 30 GA106
GPU variant Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006) GA106-150-A1
Architecture GCN 4.0 Ampere
Foundry GlobalFoundries Samsung
Manufacturing process 12 nm 8 nm
Number of transistors 5,700 million 13,250 million
Die size 232 mm² 276 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Nov 15th, 2018 2022
Generation Polaris GeForce 30
Production Active Unreleased
Launch price 279 USD
Current price Amazon / Newegg
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Reviews 36 in our database
Predecessor Arctic Islands GeForce 20
Successor Vega
gpu.details.availability 2022

Clocks

Base clock 1469 MHz 1552 MHz
Boost clock 1545 MHz 1777 MHz
Memory clock 2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective 1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR6
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 256.0 GB/s 224.0 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 2304 2560
TMUs 144 80
ROPs 32 48
Compute units 36
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 128 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 2 MB 2 MB
SM count 20
Tensor cores 80
RT cores 20

Performance

Pixel rate 49.44 GPixel/s 85.30 GPixel/s
Texture rate 222.5 GTexel/s 142.2 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 7.119 TFLOPS (1:1) 9.098 TFLOPS (1:1)
FP32 (float) performance 7.119 TFLOPS 9.098 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 445.0 GFLOPS (1:16) 142.2 GFLOPS (1:64)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 241 mm 9.5 inches 242 mm 9.5 inches
TDP 175 W 90 W
Suggested PSU 450 W 250 W
Outputs 1x HDMI3x DisplayPort 1x HDMI3x DisplayPort
Power connectors 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin
Board number C944-41
Width 112 mm 4.4 inches

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader model 6.4 6.6
CUDA 8.6

Other Features

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