NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT 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 11 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 51% (1470MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +126%

6.774 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

2.995 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Nov 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/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

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

185W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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