NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs ATI Radeon HD 3870

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB ATI Radeon HD 3870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 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 16 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1470MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 106W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +1262%

6.774 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

Radeon HD 3870

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon R600

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

1126 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR4

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

2304

Shading Units

320

72

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

RV670

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

106W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

-

6.7

Shader Model

4.1

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