NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 vs AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM 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 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 +1010%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

0.819 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

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Radeon HD 8740 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Sep 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

55W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GA107-150-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.5 billion

Unknown

Die Size

123 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

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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