NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 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 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

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

1120 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +335%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Aug 2012

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

18

2560

Shading Units

1440

80

TMUs

72

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

23.20 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Cypress

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

151W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 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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