AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM 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

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 88% (1740MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +114%

7.127 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jan 2022

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1545 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

1792

Shading Units

2048

112

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

55.68 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

111.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.127 TFLOPS

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.127 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

111.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

90W

550 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 PRO (215-0821056)

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

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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