NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 14 years late

Boost Clock1777MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 52.99GB/s)

2240 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +2025%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 AGP

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

Radeon HD 3850 AGP

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

52.99GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

2560

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.69 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.69 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

427.5 GFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.50 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

RV670

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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