NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM 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 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1755MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +887%

8.087 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

0.819 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Sep 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1515 MHz

Base Clock

-

1755 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

18

SM Count

-

2304

Shading Units

512

72

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

126.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

8.087 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.087 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

126.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

55W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

123 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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