NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP 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 1 months late

Boost Clock1470MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +149%

6.774 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Jan 2013

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

1050 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

18

SM Count

-

2304

Shading Units

1600

72

TMUs

80

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

27.20 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

70W

TDP

175W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Cypress

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

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

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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