AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon Vega 8 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 Vega 8

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

593 points

2615 points

340% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

64 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

32 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS

45 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS

25 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.64 points

1161.74 points

1210% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

8763 points

55123 points

529% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8956 points

47251 points

427% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9296 points

51045 points

449% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11397 points

53105 points

365% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

1238 MHz

312% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2000 MHz

33% slightly higher boost clock speed

1500 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W

66% significantly lower TDP

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigapixels/s

33.82 Gigapixels/s

111% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigatexels/s

67.65 Gigatexels/s

5% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.05 TFLOPS

4.33 TFLOPS

111% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

2048

300% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

309th of 586

170th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon Vega 8 vs GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop beats the Radeon Vega 8 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 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. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 8 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.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop over the Radeon Vega 8.