GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs Radeon RX 5700M

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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
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 10GA106
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 March 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 cores23042560
Core clock speed1465 MHz1552 MHz
Boost clock speed1720 MHz1777 MHz
Number of transistors10,300 million12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)180 Watt130 Watt
Texture fill rate247.7142.2
Floating-point processing power7.926 TFLOPS9.098 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs14480
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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Lengthno data242 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth384.0 GB/s224.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
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API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2020 4 January 2022
Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 180 Watt 130 Watt

RX 5700M has a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.

RTX 3050 8 GB, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and 38.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5700M and GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 5700M is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB is a desktop one.


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