NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 AMD Radeon HD 6850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 127W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 +511%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

VS

Radeon HD 6850

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 2010

GeForce 30

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

2560

Shading Units

960

80

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.80 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.20 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1488 GFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Barts

GA107-150-A1

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.7 billion

Unknown

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

127W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-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

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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