NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 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 9 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +255%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Mar 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

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

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

32.00 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

175W

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 Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

212 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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