GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs Radeon Instinct MI100

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated165
Place by popularitynot in top-10011
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data69.36
Power efficiencyno data17.26
ArchitectureCDNA 1.0 (2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameArcturusGA106
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date16 November 2020 (4 years ago)4 January 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$249

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 cores76802560
Core clock speed1000 MHz1552 MHz
Boost clock speed1502 MHz1777 MHz
Number of transistors50,000 million12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt130 Watt
Texture fill rate721.0142.2
Floating-point processing power23.07 TFLOPS9.098 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs48080
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length267 mm242 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin1x 8-pin

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 typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount32 GB8 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth1,229 GB/s224.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectXN/A12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader ModelN/A6.6
OpenGLN/A4.6
OpenCL2.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 November 2020 4 January 2022
Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 130 Watt

Instinct MI100 has a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.

RTX 3050 8 GB, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and 130.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Instinct MI100 and GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Instinct MI100 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon Instinct MI100
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