Radeon HD 6990 vs GeForce RTX 3050 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1755MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (130W vs 375W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 6990
2550
GeForce RTX 3050 OEM
+217%
8087
Graphics Card
Mar 2011
Release Date
Jan 2022
Northern Islands
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1515 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1755 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
18
1536
Shading Units
2304
96
TMUs
72
32
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
72
-
RT Cores
18
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
26.56 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.16 GPixel/s
79.68 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
126.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
8.087 TFLOPS
2.550 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.087 TFLOPS
637.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
126.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
375W
TDP
130W
750 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Antilles
GPU Name
GA106
Antilles XT
(215-0807027)
GPU Variant
GA106-150-KA-A1
TeraScale 3
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
40 nm
Process Size
8 nm
2.64 billion
Transistors
12 billion
389 mm²
Die Size
276 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
5.0
Shader Model
6.6