ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

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ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 106W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +1334%

7.127 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jan 2022

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1545 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1126 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.06GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

320

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

55.68 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

111.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.127 TFLOPS

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.127 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

111.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

90W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

GA107

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GPU Variant

GA107-140-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

55 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

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

4.1

Shader Model

6.7

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