NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

2240 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +1811%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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Radeon HD 2900 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

106.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

2560

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.89 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.89 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

475.5 GFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

R600

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

80 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

215W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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