GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs Radeon E8950

Place in the ranking	369	201
Place by popularity	not in top-100	24
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	76.17
Power efficiency	10.23	27.17
Architecture	GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	Amethyst	GA107
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	29 September 2015 (9 years ago)	2 February 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$179

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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	2048	2304
Core clock speed	735 MHz	1042 MHz
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz	1470 MHz
Number of transistors	5,000 million	8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	95 Watt	70 Watt
Texture fill rate	128.0	105.8
Floating-point processing power	4.096 TFLOPS	6.774 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	32
TMUs	128	72
Tensor Cores	no data	72
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	18

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	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 4.0 x8
Length	no data	242 mm
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

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	GDDR5	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	6 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	96 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB/s	168.0 GB/s

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	No outputs	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI	-	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.3	6.7
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	3.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.3
CUDA	-	8.6

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	14.17	27.74
Recency	29 September 2015	2 February 2024
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	6 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	95 Watt	70 Watt

Radeon E8950 has a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 3050 6 GB, on the other hand, has a 95.8% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 8 years, a 250% more advanced lithography process, and 35.7% lower power consumption.

The GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon E8950 in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon E8950 is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB is a desktop one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.