AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1470MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +78%

6.774 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Feb 2024

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1042 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1470 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

96bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

168.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

18

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

2304

128

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

47.04 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

105.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

6.774 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.774 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA107

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

GA107-325-K2-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

Board Design

250W

TDP

70W

600 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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