NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz 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 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1470MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +57%

6.774 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

384bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

18

SM Count

-

2304

Shading Units

2048

72

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Board Design

70W

TDP

300W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

352 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

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