NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +363%

7.127 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

VS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Sep 2011

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

1050 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

16

SM Count

-

2048

Shading Units

960

64

TMUs

48

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

38.40 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

90W

TDP

254W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Barts

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

255 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

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