NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 vs AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 's Advantages

Released 12 years late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5050 +403%

12.9 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050

VS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 50

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

-

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.90 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GB207

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GB207

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

0 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.8 billion

Unknown

Die Size

212 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

9.1

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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