NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 82% (1777MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 +203%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

2.995 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Nov 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

2560

Shading Units

1536

80

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA107-150-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

4.313 billion

Unknown

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

185W

300 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 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-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

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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