AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2012
Jan 2022
Generation
Southern Islands
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1750 MHz
Base Clock
—
1515 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1755 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
224.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
—
Shading Units
1280
2304
TMUs
80
72
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
SM Count
—
18
Tensor Cores
—
72
RT Cores
—
18
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
56.16 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
80.00 GTexel/s
126.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.560 TFLOPS
8.087 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
160.0 GFLOPS
126.4 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
8.087 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Pitcairn
GA106
GPU Variant
Pitcairn XT(215-0828047)
GA106-150-KA-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
12 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
276 mm²
Board Design
TDP
175W
130W
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
CUDA
—
8.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.