AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 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)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +255%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

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GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

20

1280

Shading Units

2560

80

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

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

130W

450 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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GA106

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

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

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