AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1470MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +149%

6.774 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Feb 2024

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1042 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1470 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

96bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

168.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

18

1600

Shading Units

2304

80

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

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

47.04 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

105.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.774 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.774 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

70W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GA107

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

GA107-325-K2-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

200 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

6.7

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