NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
May 2013
Generation
GeForce 30
Solar System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1552 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
20
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Shading Units
2560
1280
TMUs
80
80
ROPs
32
32
Tensor Cores
80
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RT Cores
20
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
56.86 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
142.2 GTexel/s
72.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
9.098 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
9.098 TFLOPS
2.304 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
142.2 GFLOPS
144.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA107
Neptune
GPU Variant
GA107-150-A1
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
Unknown
2.8 billion
Die Size
Unknown
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
115W
100W
Suggested PSU
300 W
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
8.6
—
Shader Model
6.6
5.1
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
7,384
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
3,391
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.