NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 6870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1755MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1184 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +301%

8.087 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 6870

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 2010

GeForce 30

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1515 MHz

Base Clock

-

1755 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

18

SM Count

-

2304

Shading Units

1120

72

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

32

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

126.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

8.087 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.087 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

126.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

130W

TDP

151W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Barts

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

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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