AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

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AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 78% (1740MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 XT

2.995 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +137%

7.127 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

Graphics Card

Nov 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

925 MHz

Base Clock

1545 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

1536

Shading Units

2048

96

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

55.68 GPixel/s

93.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

111.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

7.127 TFLOPS

2.995 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.127 TFLOPS

748.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

111.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

90W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 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 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA107

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

GPU Variant

GA107-140-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

200 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

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CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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