AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 7850
1.761 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
+416%
9.098 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon HD 7850
1334
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
1328
Graphics Card
Mar 2012
Release Date
Jan 2022
Southern Islands
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1552 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
20
1024
Shading Units
2560
64
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
80
-
RT Cores
20
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
27.52 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.86 GPixel/s
55.04 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
142.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
9.098 TFLOPS
1.761 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.098 TFLOPS
110.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
142.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
130W
TDP
130W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
GA106
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GPU Variant
GA106-150-KA-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
12 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
276 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
