AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1755MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 X2

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +426%

8.087 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

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

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/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

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.16 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

126.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

8.087 TFLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.087 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

126.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

254W

TDP

130W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-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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