AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

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AMD Radeon HD 6970

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 +236%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

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GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

Graphics Card

Dec 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

1552 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

20

1536

Shading Units

2560

96

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

115W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GA107

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

GA107-150-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

Unknown

389 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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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