GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB Advantages
Released 8 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
768 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (130W vs 200W)
Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
+217%
9098
Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
2867
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Mar 2013
GeForce 30
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1552 MHz
Base Clock
-
1777 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
28
20
SM Count
-
2560
Shading Units
1792
80
TMUs
112
32
ROPs
32
80
Tensor Cores
-
20
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
56.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
142.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
89.60 GTexel/s
9.098 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
9.098 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.867 TFLOPS
142.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
716.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
130W
TDP
200W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA106
GPU Name
Tahiti
GA106-150-KA-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO
(215-0821056)
(215-0821056)
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
12 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
276 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
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
-
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
