ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 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 14 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

2240 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +1811%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Jan 2022

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1552 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

828 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

106.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

20

320

Shading Units

2560

16

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.89 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

11.89 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

475.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

130W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

GA106

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

80 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

12 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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