AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (127W vs 130W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1755MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +443%

8.087 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jan 2022

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1515 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1755 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

18

960

Shading Units

2304

48

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.16 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

126.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

8.087 TFLOPS

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.087 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

126.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

127W

TDP

130W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GA106

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

12 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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