NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 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 late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

1792 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (85W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +640%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

1.229 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 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

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

768

80

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1229 GFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

85W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

352 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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