NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M
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
1515 MHz
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Boost Clock
1755 MHz
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Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
128bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
88.00GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
18
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Shading Units
2304
768
TMUs
72
48
ROPs
32
16
Tensor Cores
72
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RT Cores
18
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
256 KB
Compute Units
—
12
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
56.16 GPixel/s
17.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
126.4 GTexel/s
51.60 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
8.087 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
8.087 TFLOPS
1.651 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
126.4 GFLOPS
103.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
Saturn
GPU Variant
GA106-150-KA-A1
Saturn XT
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
12 billion
2.08 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
160 mm²
Board Design
TDP
130W
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 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
8.6
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Shader Model
6.6
6.3
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.