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| Recommended System Requirements | ||
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| Game | GeForce RTX 3050 | Radeon R9 280X Crossfire |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 32% | 5% |
| Hitman 3 | 11% | 36% |
| Assassins Creed: Valhalla | 37% | 4% |
| Resident Evil 8 | 32% | 5% |
| FIFA 21 | 65% | 47% |
| Grand Theft Auto VI | 4% | 47% |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War | 39% | 7% |
| Genshin Impact | 32% | 5% |
| The Medium | 15% | 31% |
| Far Cry 6 | 1% | 52% |
In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 are significantly better than the AMD Radeon R9 280X Crossfire.
The GeForce RTX 3050 has a 515 MHz higher core clock speed than the R9 280X, but the R9 280X has 136 more Texture Mapping Units than the GeForce RTX 3050. As a result, the R9 280X exhibits a 53.8 GTexel/s better Texture Fill Rate than the GeForce RTX 3050. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.
The GeForce RTX 3050 has a 515 MHz higher core clock speed but 16 fewer Render Output Units than the R9 280X. The lower ROP count doesn't matter, though, as altogether the GeForce RTX 3050 manages to provide 11.1 GPixel/s better pixeling performance. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.
The GeForce RTX 3050 was released over three years more recently than the R9 280X, and so the GeForce RTX 3050 is likely to have far better driver support, meaning it will be much more optimized and ultimately superior to the R9 280X when running the latest games.
Both GPUs exhibit very powerful performance, so it probably isn't worth upgrading from one to the other, as both are capable of running even the most demanding games at the highest settings.
The R9 280X has 2048 MB more video memory than the GeForce RTX 3050, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. This is supported by the fact that the R9 280X also has superior memory performance overall.
The R9 280X has 240 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the GeForce RTX 3050, which means that the memory performance of the R9 280X is massively better than the GeForce RTX 3050.
The GeForce RTX 3050 has 1920 Shader Processing Units and the Radeon R9 280X Crossfire has 4096. However, the actual shader performance of the GeForce RTX 3050 is 3226. The R9 280X having 870 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the R9 280X delivers a massively smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the GeForce RTX 3050.
The GeForce RTX 3050 transistor size technology is 21 nm (nanometers) smaller than the R9 280X. This means that the GeForce RTX 3050 is expected to run slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the R9 280X.
The GeForce RTX 3050 requires 80 Watts to run and the Radeon R9 280X Crossfire requires 550 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 450 Watts for the GeForce RTX 3050 and a PSU with at least 1000 Watts for the R9 280X. The R9 280X requires 470 Watts more than the GeForce RTX 3050 to run. The difference is significant enough that the R9 280X may have an adverse affect on your yearly electricity bills in comparison to the GeForce RTX 3050.
| Core Speed | 1365 MHz |  | vs | 850 MHz | |
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| Boost Clock | 1680 MHz | | vs | 1000 MHz | |
| Architecture | Ampere GA107 | GCN 1.1 Tahiti XTL (x2) | |||
| OC Potential | - | vs |
| Fair | |
| Driver Support | - | vs | - | ||
| Release Date | 30 Sep 2020 | | vs | 01 Oct 2013 | |
| GPU Link | GD Link | GD Link | |||
| Approved |  | | |||
| Comparison | |||||
| 1366x768 | 10
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vs | - | |
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| 1600x900 | 10
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vs | - | |
| 1920x1080 | 10
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10
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| 2560x1440 | 9.6
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vs | - | |
| 3840x2160 | 7.5
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vs | - | |
| Memory | 4096 MB | vs | | 6144 MB | |
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| Memory Speed | 1750 MHz | | vs | 1500 MHz | |
| Memory Bus | 192 Bit | vs | | 768 Bit | |
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | | vs | GDDR5 | |
| Memory Bandwidth | 336GB/sec | vs | | 576GB/sec | |
| L2 Cache | 0 KB | vs | |
1536 KB | |
| Delta Color Compression | no | vs | no | ||
| Memory Performance | 0% | |
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0% |
| Comparison | |||||
| Shader Processing Units | 1920 | vs | | 4096 | |
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| Actual Shader Performance | 100% | | vs | | 100% |
| Technology | 7nm | | vs | 28nm | |
| Texture Mapping Units | 120 | vs | | 256 | |
| Texture Rate | 163.8 GTexel/s | vs | | 217.6 GTexel/s | |
| Render Output Units | 48 | vs | | 64 | |
| Pixel Rate | 65.5 GPixel/s | | vs | 54.4 GPixel/s | |
| Comparison | |||||
| Max Digital Resolution (WxH) | 7680x4320 | | vs | 4096x2160 | |
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| VGA Connections | 0 | vs | 0 | ||
| DVI Connections | 0 | vs | 0 | ||
| HDMI Connections | 1 | | vs | 0 | |
| DisplayPort Connections | 3 | | vs | - | |
| Comparison | |||||
| Max Power | 80 Watts | | vs | 550 Watts | |
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| Recommended PSU | 450 Watts | | vs | 1000 Watts & 42 Amps | |
| DirectX | 12.1 | | vs | 11.2 | |
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| Shader Model | - | vs | | 5.0 | |
| Open GL | - | vs | | 4.3 | |
| Open CL | - | vs | - | ||
| Notebook GPU | no | no | |||
| SLI/Crossfire | no | vs | no | ||
| Dedicated | yes | | vs | | yes |
| Comparison | |||||
| Recommended Processor | Intel Core i7-9700K 8-Core 3.6GHz | vs | | Intel Core i7-3770K 4-Core 3.5GHz | |
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| Recommended RAM | 16 GB | vs | | 8 GB | |
| Maximum Recommended Gaming Resolution | 2560x1440 | | vs | 1920x1080 | |
| Performance Value |  | ||||
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| Mini Review | Overview GeForce RTX 3050 is an entry level GeForce 30 Series graphics card and considered a great price to performance graphics card based on the Ampere architecture. Architecture The Ampere architecture represents a process shrink down to 7nm compared to 12nm Turing. The Ampere architecture provides the world's next consumer support for real-time ray-tracing technology, or RTX. The GeForce RTX 3050 does support real-time ray-tracing and excels at 1080p screen resolution. GPU It equips an Ampere GPU codenamed GA107 which has 1920 Shader Processing Units, 120 TMUs and 47 ROPs. The central unit runs at 1365 MHz and goes up to 1680 MHz, in Boost mode. Memory The GPU accesses a 4GB frame buffer of first-gen GDDR6 memory through a 192-bit memory interface, while the Memory clock operates at 1750MHz, or 14GHz effective. Power Consumption With a rated board TDP of 80W, it requires at least a 450W PSU with an 8-pin power connector. System Suggestions GeForce RTX 3050 is best suited for resolutions up to and including 2560x1440. We recommend a mid-range Processor and at least 16GB of RAM for optimal performance. | Radeon R9 280X Crossfire is a solution of two Radeon R9 280X put together using AMD'S Crossfire technology. Check the page of Radeon R9 280X to know more about its chip. Crossfire relies a lot on proper driver support and may suffer from micro-stuttering in lower frame rates (below 30). Benchmarks indicate the performance is overall, is up to 60% better than a single Radeon R9 280X performing by itself but at times (depending whether or not the 3D game supports crossfire or in the graphics driver) it performed worse than a single Radeon R9 280X. Expect this combination to draw up to 550 Watt though the average power consumption should be slightly lower. Even the most demanding games will run at the highest settings. | |||
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| Possible GPU Upgrades | - | ||||
| GPU Variants | - | - | |||