AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

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

Boost Clock1755MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

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

1184 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +301%

8.087 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

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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

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

18

14

Compute Units

-

1120

Shading Units

2304

56

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

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.16 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

126.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

8.087 TFLOPS

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.087 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

126.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GA106

Barts XT (215-0798000)

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

Board Design

151W

TDP

130W

450 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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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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