AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Price

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$ 499.99

$ 379.99

$ 120.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

22 %

35 %

59% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

46 FPS

82 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

43 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

61 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

33 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4333

6202

43% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

419.17

1588.40

278% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49182

71667

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54191

56109

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46698

66063

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

50839

65725

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1257 MHz

1552 MHz

23% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1340 MHz

1777 MHz

32% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

Identical

8 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

256 GB/s

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

185 W

130 W

42% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

42.88 Gigapixels/s

56.86 Gigapixels/s

32% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

192.96 Gigatexels/s

35% slightly higher texture rate

142.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.18 TFLOPS

9.10 TFLOPS

47% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

2560

11% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

79% 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

95th of 363

67th of 363

Family

The product line

Radeon 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

April 2017

January 2022

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 580 vs GeForce RTX 3050 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3050 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 580 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 3050 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 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 has a slightly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580 at 185 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3050 over the Radeon RX 580.