NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM 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 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 59% (1470MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +104%

6.774 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042MHz

Base Clock

850MHz

1470MHz

Boost Clock

925MHz

1750MHz

Memory Clock

1250MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

384bit

168.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0 GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

2304

Shading Units

1792

72

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2MB

L2 Cache

768KB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8,700 million

Transistors

4,313 million

200mm²

Die Size

352mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

200W

250W

Suggested PSU

550W

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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