AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 8870M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 73% (1343MHz vs 775MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870M

0.992 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile +385%

4.813 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jan 2024

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

725 MHz

Base Clock

1065 MHz

775 MHz

Boost Clock

1343 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

640

Shading Units

1792

40

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

56

-

RT Cores

14

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.98 GPixel/s

31.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.21 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

4.813 TFLOPS

992.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.813 TFLOPS

62.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.21 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

45W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

GA106

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

12 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.7

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