NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7870M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB AMD Radeon HD 7870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1125MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 45W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB +350%

4.608 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870M

1.024 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB

VS

Radeon HD 7870M

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

757 MHz

Base Clock

-

1125 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

2048

Shading Units

640

64

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

36.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

4.608 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.608 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1024 GFLOPS

72.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

64.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Heathrow

-

GPU Variant

Heathrow XT (216-0835033)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

35W

TDP

45W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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