Radeon RX 580 and GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh - video card comparison

Radeon RX 580

GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Polaris 20

GA107

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

April 2017

July 2022

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1340 MHz

990 MHz

Core clock speed

1257 MHz

Floating-point performance

6,175 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

185 Watt

75 Watt

Texture fill rate

193.0

63.36

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

96 Bit

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

12 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

144.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.6

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3