GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs Radeon HD 3450 AGP

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Jan 2022
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
Radeon HD 3450 AGP
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Jan 2008
Radeon HD 3450 AGP

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3450 AGP

105 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GBRadeon HD 3450 AGP
GPU NameGA106 (GA106-150-A1)vsRV620 (RV620 LE)
Fab Process8 nmvs55 nm
Die Size276 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors13,250 millionvs181 million
Shaders2560vs40
Compute Units20vs2
Core clock1552 MHzvs600 MHz
ROPs48vs4
TMUs80vs4

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GBRadeon HD 3450 AGP
Memory TypeGDDR6vsDDR2
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GBRadeon HD 3450 AGP
TDP130 wattsvs25 watts
Release Date4 Jan 2022vs23 Jan 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
    85.30 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 3450 AGP
    2.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
    142.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 3450 AGP
    2.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
    224.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 3450 AGP
    8.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
    9098.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 3450 AGP
    48.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better