NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 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

Boost Clock1470MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +150%

6.774 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Unknown

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

1375 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

2304

Shading Units

1536

72

TMUs

96

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

28.16 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Antilles

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

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

375W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

3x 8-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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