ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition 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

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 130W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

2240 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +1730%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 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

1552 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1126 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.06GB/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

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

130W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

GA106

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

55 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

12 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

276 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

6.6

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