GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz 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 9 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1740MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (90W vs 175W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+178%
7127
Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
2560
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Mar 2012
GeForce 30
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1545 MHz
Base Clock
-
1740 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.0GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
16
SM Count
-
2048
Shading Units
1280
64
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
55.68 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
111.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
80.00 GTexel/s
7.127 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
7.127 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.560 TFLOPS
111.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
160.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
90W
TDP
175W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
Pitcairn
GA107-140-A1
GPU Variant
Pitcairn XT
(215-0828047)
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
8.6
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
5.1