AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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AMD Radeon HD 6950

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 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 13 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1470MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +200%

6.774 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

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GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

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

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

96bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

168.0GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

-

SM Count

18

1408

Shading Units

2304

88

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

47.04 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

105.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

6.774 TFLOPS

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.774 TFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

70W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GA107

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

GA107-325-K2-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

389 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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