NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Price

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$ 229.99

$ 450.00 significantly less expensive

$ 679.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3468 points

19220 points

454% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

82 FPS

393 FPS

311 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

273 FPS

232 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

59 FPS

362 FPS

303 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

31 FPS

158 FPS

127 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

41 FPS

134 FPS

93 FPS significantly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

69 FPS

190 FPS

121 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

83 FPS

244 FPS

161 FPS significantly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

49 FPS

189 FPS

140 FPS significantly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Starfield FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

32 FPS

191 FPS

159 FPS significantly higher Starfield FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6224 points

10% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5616 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1484.67 points

3540.90 points

138% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

63483 points

187759 points

195% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62406 points

213258 points

241% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1552 MHz

1800 MHz

15% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

2400 MHz

35% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

20 GiB

150% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

800 GB/s

257% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

130 W

142% significantly lower TDP

315 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.86 Gigapixels/s

460 Gigapixels/s

709% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

142.2 Gigatexels/s

810 Gigatexels/s

469% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.10 TFLOPS

54.07 TFLOPS

494% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

12288

380% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

768

859% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

499% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

139th of 586

10th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

2022 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 7900 XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 7900 XT beats the GeForce RTX 3050 in gaming performance.

The Radeon RX 7900 XT has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 7900 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 7900 XT has significantly more memory with 20 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 has a significantly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7900 XT at 315 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 7900 XT is better than the GeForce RTX 3050.