AMD Radeon HD 7870M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB

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AMD Radeon HD 7870M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1125MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 45W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870M

1.024 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB +350%

4.608 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870M

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Jul 2022

London

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

757 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1125 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

2048

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

36.00 GPixel/s

32.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.608 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.608 TFLOPS

64.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

72.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Heathrow

GPU Name

GA107

Heathrow XT (216-0835033)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

45W

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

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

6.7

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