NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +162%

7.127 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

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Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1545 MHz

Base Clock

-

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

2048

Shading Units

1600

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

55.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Cypress

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

90W

TDP

175W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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