NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6990

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB AMD Radeon HD 6990

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990 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 10 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +256%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990

2.55 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

Radeon HD 6990

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Mar 2011

GeForce 30

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/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

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.56 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

79.68 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.550 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

637.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Antilles

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 3

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

375W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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