AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 480 8 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 RX 480

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2142 points

2615 points

22% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

64 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

32 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

Identical

45 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

25 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

349.71 points

1161.74 points

232% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44522 points

55123 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48947 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

47251 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

42732 points

51045 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49182 points

53105 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1266 MHz

2% slightly higher core clock speed

1238 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1266 MHz

1500 MHz

18% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

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

224 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

192 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

75 W

100% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

40.51 Gigapixels/s

19% slightly higher pixel rate

33.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

182.3 Gigatexels/s

169% significantly higher texture rate

67.65 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.83 TFLOPS

34% slightly better floating point performance

4.33 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

12% slightly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

125% 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

199th of 586

170th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 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

4.5

4.6

Radeon RX 480 vs GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 480 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 480 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 480 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop is faster than the Radeon RX 480.