NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM 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 late

Boost Clock has increased by 92% (1777MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +174%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 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

850 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

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

28

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

112

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

29.60 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

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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