AMD Radeon R9 380 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon R9 380 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R9 380

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1280 points

2615 points

104% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

64 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

19 FPS

32 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

26 FPS

45 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

25 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29877 points

55123 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33763 points

47251 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

28196 points

51045 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33667 points

53105 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

970 MHz

1238 MHz

27% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

970 MHz

1500 MHz

54% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

4 GB/s

192 GB/s

4700% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

190 W

75 W

153% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

31.04 Gigapixels/s

33.82 Gigapixels/s

8% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

108.6 Gigatexels/s

60% significantly higher texture rate

67.65 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.48 TFLOPS

4.33 TFLOPS

24% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

2048

14% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

75% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

245th of 586

170th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon R9 380 vs GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop graphics card is better than the Radeon R9 380 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 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 GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 4 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 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon R9 380 at 190 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop over the Radeon R9 380.