GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages
Released 13 years late
Boost Clock1740MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)
1248 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (90W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+493%
7127
Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition
1200
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Jan 2009
GeForce 30
Generation
Radeon R700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1545 MHz
Base Clock
-
1740 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.0GB/s
Bandwidth
108.8GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
16
SM Count
-
2048
Shading Units
800
64
TMUs
40
32
ROPs
16
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
55.68 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.00 GPixel/s
111.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
30.00 GTexel/s
7.127 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
7.127 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1200 GFLOPS
111.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
240.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
90W
TDP
150W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
RV770
GA107-140-A1
GPU Variant
RV770 XT Mac
(215-0669080)
Ampere
Architecture
TeraScale
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
55 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
0.956 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
256 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
4.1