AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop

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

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AMD Radeon RX 580

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

3208 points

41% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

77 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

38 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

55 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

30 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

390.99 points

1508.43 points

285% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45779 points

54544 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53514 points

57342 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1257 MHz

18% slightly higher core clock speed

1065 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1340 MHz

1343 MHz

0.22% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

192 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

185 W

45 W

311% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

42.88 Gigapixels/s

42.98 Gigapixels/s

0.23% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

192.96 Gigatexels/s

156% significantly higher texture rate

75.21 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

28% slightly more shading units

1792

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

157% 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

196th of 604

147th of 604

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

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 A Laptop specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 580 in gaming.

The Radeon RX 580 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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580 at 185 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop is better than the Radeon RX 580.