AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6870

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 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 11 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +253%

7.127 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

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

1545 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

1120

Shading Units

2048

56

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

55.68 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

111.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.127 TFLOPS

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.127 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

111.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

151W

TDP

90W

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

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GA107

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

GA107-140-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

255 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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