AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 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 224.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 90% (1755MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +143%

8.087 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

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

1515 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1755 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

18

1792

Shading Units

2304

112

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.16 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

126.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

8.087 TFLOPS

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.087 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

126.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

130W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 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 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA106

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

12 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

276 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

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CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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