NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs ATI Radeon HD 4870

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB ATI Radeon HD 4870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 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 13 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +658%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

Radeon HD 4870

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon R700

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

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

2560

Shading Units

800

80

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

RV770

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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