GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs Radeon HD 6950
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 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 11 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1740MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (90W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+216%
7127
Radeon HD 6950
2253
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Dec 2010
GeForce 30
Generation
Northern Islands
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
1250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.0GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
22
16
SM Count
-
2048
Shading Units
1408
64
TMUs
88
32
ROPs
32
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
55.68 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
111.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
70.40 GTexel/s
7.127 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
7.127 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.253 TFLOPS
111.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
563.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
90W
TDP
200W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
Cayman
GA107-140-A1
GPU Variant
Cayman PRO
(215-0807019)
Ampere
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
40 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
2.64 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
389 mm²
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