NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 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 10 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (1470MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +65%

6.774 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

950 MHz

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

384bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

2304

Shading Units

2048

72

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Malta

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

Malta XT (215-0849026)

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

365 mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

375W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-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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