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AMD Radeon 780M vs GeForce RTX 3050

Radeon 780M
VS
GeForce RTX 3050
AMD Radeon 780M
Phoenix
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050
GA106

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Radeon 780M with 12 pipelines and 768 shaders against the 11 months older GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB that utilizes 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
DeviceFacts Final Score
Overall video card score
The "Energy Efficiency" metric has less impact on the DeviceFacts Score for desktop GPU.

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3050 over Radeon 780M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 780M
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3050
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.4x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 2.6x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 42 vs 16 FPS
  • Includes 8 GB of dedicated GDDR6 memory
  • 2.1x higher maximum theoretical performance (9.1 vs 4.3 TFLOPS)
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
  • Achieves 2x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (67K vs 32K)
  • Has 3.3x more shading units (2560 vs 768)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
Radeon 780M
vs
RTX 3050

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
52
26
22
11
92
53
43
26
The Witcher 3
26
26
13
-
90
70
49
24
Counter-Strike 2
44
31
21
9
139
101
72
31
Far Cry 6
39
29
21
10
76
66
49
25
Hogwarts Legacy
22
15
11
-
49
38
30
13
CoD: Modern Warfare III
34
29
19
12
59
49
35
22
Ghost of Tsushima
21
15
10
-
46
35
28
15
Cyberpunk 2077
19
20
10
-
48
45
26
11
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
36
31
20
9
80
73
49
25
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 33 75
1080p Ultra 25 59
1440p Ultra 16 42
4K Ultra - 21
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Radeon 780M
2661
RTX 3050 +139%
6348
Time Spy 2787 6235
Solar Bay 11525 30191
Port Royal 1579 3546
Fire Strike 7885 15967
Wild Life Extreme 5305 12795
Night Raid 33367 74854
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Radeon 780M
32713
RTX 3050 +105%
67028
Background Blur 86.4 img/sec 110.4 img/sec
Face Detection 35.8 img/sec 64.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.03 Gpixels/sec 2.87 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.36 Gpixels/sec 3.76 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.41 Gpixels/sec 2.89 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.41 Gpixels/sec 0.81 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 132.4 Gpixels/sec 270.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 4470.7 FPS 9339.7 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
Radeon 780M
6762
RTX 3050 +84%
12471
G2D Mark 885 916
DirectX 11 65 FPS 90 FPS
DirectX 12 30 FPS 59 FPS
GPU Compute 3577 Ops/s 6415 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 12072 & 9379 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Radeon 780M
262.43
RTX 3050 +457%
1462.18
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 182 & 1092 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon 780M
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-10-01 -> RennsportGeekbench 6 OpenCL27852
📘 2026-10-01 -> RennsportGeekbench 7 OpenCL23850
📘 2026-10-01 -> RennsportGeekbench 7 OpenCL28775
📘 2026-08-17 -> RennsportGeekbench 6 OpenCL32197
📘 2026-02-26 (iFraan)Geekbench 6 OpenCL28558
Add View all (5)
GeForce RTX 3050
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-04-21 -> DmitryDmitryCinebench 20244722
📘 2026-04-21 -> DmitryDmitrySteel Nomad Light6237
Add View all (2)

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
Radeon 780M
9091
RTX 3050 +30%
11848
GB6 ML Half Precision
Radeon 780M
13510
RTX 3050 +58%
21368
GB6 ML Quantized
Radeon 780M
6786
RTX 3050 +16%
7905
Image Classification (SP) 3860 4958
Image Segmentation (HP) 5435 12747
Image Super Resolution (Q) 10580 9816
Face Detection (HP) 12855 22467
Pose Estimation (Q) 34716 41362
Text Classification (SP) 2578 2563
Machine Translation (HP) 3897 3721
Object Detection (SP) 3078 5929
Depth Estimation (Q) 14989 18361
Style Transfer (SP) 78608 84665
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 780M and GeForce RTX 3050

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Integrated Discrete
Released January 4, 2023 January 27, 2022
Launch price (MSRP) - $249
Case Laptop Desktop
Purpose Generic Gaming
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 3.0 Ampere
GPU Codename Phoenix GA106
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores) -
Successor - Radeon 8050S -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 7840U or above - Intel Core i5 12400 or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen 7 H 255
- AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS
- AMD Ryzen 7 250
- AMD Ryzen 7 260
- AMD Ryzen 9 270
- AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme
- AMD Ryzen 7 8700G
- AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
- and 6 more		 -
Laptop GPU ranking (#99th place)
Desktop GPU rating (#71st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 800 MHz 1552 MHz
Boost Clock 2700-2800 MHz (configurable) 1777 MHz
Shading Units 768 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 48 80
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 12 20
Tensor Cores - 80
Ray-tracing Cores 12 20
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 86-90 GPixel/s 57 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 130-134 GTexel/s 142 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 780M
4.1-4.3 TFLOPS
RTX 3050 +112%
9.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 15 W 130 W
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 4 nm 8 nm
Die Size 178 mm² 276 mm²
Transistor Count 25.4 billion 12 billion
Transistor Density 142.7 MTr/mm² 43.48 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type System Shared GDDR6
Memory Size - 8 GB
Memory Clock - 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed - 14000 Mbps
Bus - 128-bit
ECC - No
Memory Bandwidth
Radeon 780M
n/a
RTX 3050
224 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA - 8.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 2
DisplayPort 2.1 1.4a

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Total votes: 22

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