AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8870M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 28% (990MHz vs 775MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870M

0.992 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh +308%

4.055 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jul 2022

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

622 MHz

775 MHz

Boost Clock

990 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

96bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

144.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

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

12.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.68 GPixel/s

31.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

63.36 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

4.055 TFLOPS

992.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.055 TFLOPS

62.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

63.36 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

GA107

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

Unknown

123 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

6.6

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