NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7970
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
Jan 2012
Generation
GeForce 30
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1545 MHz
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Boost Clock
1740 MHz
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Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
384bit
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
16
—
Shading Units
2048
2048
TMUs
64
128
ROPs
32
32
Tensor Cores
64
—
RT Cores
16
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
—
32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
55.68 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
111.4 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
7.127 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
7.127 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
111.4 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA107
Tahiti
GPU Variant
GA107-140-A1
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
8.7 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
90W
250W
Suggested PSU
250 W
600 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1 (1.2)
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.170
CUDA
8.6
—
Shader Model
6.7
6.5 (5.1)
Benchmark
OctaneBench
175
—
Blender
1,528
—
3DMark Time Spy
—
2,310
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
1,209
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.