NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1470MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +200%

6.774 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Dec 2010

GeForce 30

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

-

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

-

Compute Units

22

2304

Shading Units

1408

72

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

32

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Cayman

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 3

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

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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