NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1470MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +224%

6.774 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

-

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

-

Compute Units

18

2304

Shading Units

1440

72

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Cypress

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

151W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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