GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs Radeon HD 3870
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)
2240 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 3870 's Advantages
Lower TDP (106W vs 130W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
+1730%
9098
Radeon HD 3870
497
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Nov 2007
GeForce 30
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1552 MHz
Base Clock
-
1777 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1126 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR4
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
72.06GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
20
SM Count
-
2560
Shading Units
320
80
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
16
80
Tensor Cores
-
20
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
56.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.43 GPixel/s
142.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.43 GTexel/s
9.098 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
9.098 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
142.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
130W
TDP
106W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA106
GPU Name
RV670
GA106-150-KA-A1
GPU Variant
RV670 XT
(215-0708005)
Ampere
Architecture
TeraScale
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
55 nm
12 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
276 mm²
Die Size
192 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
4.1