NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 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 6 months late

Boost Clock1470MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 500W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +78%

6.774 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Aug 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

-

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

384bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

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

29.60 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

New Zealand

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

-

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

Board Design

70W

TDP

500W

250 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

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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