AMD Radeon RX 640 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare AMD Radeon RX 640 4 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 159.79
$ 220.20 significantly less expensive
$ 379.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6 %
35 %
483% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

14 FPS
82 FPS
68 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

9 FPS
43 FPS
34 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS
61 FPS
49 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS
33 FPS
29 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

15883
71667
351% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

15859
56109
253% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14884
66063
343% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

15859
65725
314% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1082 MHz
1552 MHz
43% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1287 MHz
1777 MHz
38% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
8 GiB
100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit
128 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

56 GB/s
224 GB/s
300% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W
160% significantly lower TDP
130 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.6 Gigapixels/s
56.86 Gigapixels/s
176% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

51.48 Gigatexels/s
142.2 Gigatexels/s
176% significantly higher texture rate

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

40
80
100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
32
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

180th of 363
66th of 363

Family

The product line

Radeon 600 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
January 2022

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon RX 640 vs GeForce RTX 3050 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3050 beats the Radeon RX 640 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3050 has a significantly 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. 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 the GeForce RTX 3050 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 640 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3050 at 130 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3050 is faster than the Radeon RX 640.

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