GeForce RTX 3050 OEM vs Radeon Vega 7

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon Vega 7 with GeForce RTX 3050 OEM, including specs and performance data.

Vega 7
2021
45 Watt
7.47

RTX 3050 OEM outperforms Vega 7 by a whopping 315% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking532178
Place by popularity18not in top-100
Power efficiency11.3816.34
ArchitectureGCN 5.1 (2018−2022)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameCezanneGA106
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date13 April 2021 (3 years ago)4 January 2022 (2 years ago)

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 cores4482560
Core clock speed300 MHz1515 MHz
Boost clock speed1900 MHz1755 MHz
Number of transistors9,800 million12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt130 Watt
Texture fill rate53.20140.4
Floating-point processing power1.702 TFLOPS8.986 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs2880
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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 4.0 x8
Lengthno data242 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared8 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data224.0 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 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.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.21.3
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.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD22
−309%
90−95
+309%
1440p32
−306%
130−140
+306%
4K16
−306%
65−70
+306%

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 7.47 30.98
Recency 13 April 2021 4 January 2022
Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 130 Watt

Vega 7 has a 14.3% more advanced lithography process, and 188.9% lower power consumption.

RTX 3050 OEM, on the other hand, has a 314.7% higher aggregate performance score, and an age advantage of 8 months.

The GeForce RTX 3050 OEM is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon Vega 7 in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon Vega 7 is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 3050 OEM is a desktop one.


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