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AMD Radeon 780M vs GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Radeon 780M
VS
GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
AMD Radeon 780M
Phoenix
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
GA107

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Radeon 780M with 12 pipelines and 768 shaders against the 2 years and 1 month older GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile 4 GB that utilizes 16 pipelines and 2048 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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  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
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3050 Mobile 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 Laptop
  • Performs significantly better (up to 85%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Includes 4 GB of dedicated GDDR6 memory
  • Shows 2x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 32 vs 16 FPS
  • 65% higher maximum theoretical performance (7.1 vs 4.3 TFLOPS)
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
  • Achieves 80% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (58K vs 32K)
  • Has 2.7x more shading units (2048 vs 768)

Gaming Performance

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

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
52
26
22
11
75
44
34
21
The Witcher 3
26
26
13
-
68
53
38
20
Counter-Strike 2
44
31
21
9
115
80
54
23
Far Cry 6
39
29
21
10
60
52
40
17
Hogwarts Legacy
22
15
11
-
37
28
23
12
CoD: Modern Warfare III
34
29
19
12
48
37
27
16
Ghost of Tsushima
21
15
10
-
37
28
18
10
Cyberpunk 2077
19
20
10
-
36
35
19
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
36
31
20
9
66
62
39
18
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 33 60
1080p Ultra 25 47
1440p Ultra 16 32
4K Ultra - 16
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 Laptop +85%
4911
Time Spy 2787 4884
Solar Bay 11525 21596
Port Royal 1579 552
Fire Strike 7885 12571
Wild Life Extreme 5305 9400
Night Raid 33367 53685
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 Laptop +80%
58733
Background Blur 86.4 img/sec 88.6 img/sec
Face Detection 35.8 img/sec 57.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.03 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.36 Gpixels/sec 3.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.41 Gpixels/sec 2.55 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.41 Gpixels/sec 0.76 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 132.4 Gpixels/sec 256.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 4470.7 FPS 7465.5 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 Laptop +41%
9506
G2D Mark 885 493
DirectX 11 65 FPS 71 FPS
DirectX 12 30 FPS 46 FPS
GPU Compute 3577 Ops/s 3868 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 12072 & 20037 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Radeon 780M
262.58
RTX 3050 Laptop +341%
1157.39
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 179 & 1477 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon 780M
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-08-17 -> RennsportGeekBench32197
📘 2026-02-26 (iFraan)GeekBench28558
Add View all (2)
GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-08-31 (bobschieffer)GeekBench61418
📘 2026-08-29 (bobschieffer)Cinebench 20243654
📘 2026-08-13 -> Kushagra_AggarwalSteel Nomad Light5735
📘 2026-01-26 (rar)GeekBench68364
Add View all (4)

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 Laptop +10%
10038
GB6 ML Half Precision
Radeon 780M
13510
RTX 3050 Laptop +42%
19152
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 3860 4349
Image Segmentation (HP) 5435 11416
Image Super Resolution (Q) 10580 8973
Face Detection (HP) 12855 18927
Pose Estimation (Q) 34716 34631
Text Classification (SP) 2578 2269
Machine Translation (HP) 3897 3539
Object Detection (SP) 3078 5046
Depth Estimation (Q) 14989 15772
Style Transfer (SP) 78608 75260
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 780M and GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Integrated Discrete
Released January 4, 2023 January 1, 2021
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.0 Ampere
GPU Codename Phoenix GA107
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores) -
Successor - Radeon 8050S - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 7840U 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 (97th and 91st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 800 MHz 712-1530 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 2700-2800 MHz (configurable) 1057-1740 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 768 2048
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 48 64
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 40
Compute Units (Pipelines) 12 16
Tensor Cores - 64
Ray-tracing Cores 12 16
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 42-70 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 130-134 GTexel/s 68-111 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 780M
4.1-4.3 TFLOPS
RTX 3050 Laptop +65%
4.3-7.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 15 W 35-95 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 4 nm 8 nm
Die Size 178 mm² 200 mm²
Transistor Count 25.4 billion 8.7 billion
Transistor Density 142.7 MTr/mm² 43.5 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type System Shared GDDR6
Memory Size - 4 GB
Memory Clock - 1500 MHz
Effective Memory Speed - 12000 Mbps
Bus - 128-bit
ECC - No
Memory Bandwidth

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
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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