AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8870M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M 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 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1125MHz vs 775MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/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 4 GB +364%

4.608 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 4 GB

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

757 MHz

775 MHz

Boost Clock

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/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

36.00 GPixel/s

31.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

4.608 TFLOPS

992.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.608 TFLOPS

62.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

72.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

35W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

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

8.7 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

200 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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