GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and Radeon HD 7970M X2 - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Radeon HD 7970M X2

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

GA106

Wimbledon

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2022

April 2012

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

MXM-B (3.0)

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

850 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

12,000 million

2,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

130 Watt

200 Watt

Texture fill rate

142.2

68.00

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

14 GB/s

4.8 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

224.0 GB/s

153.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Portable Device Dependent

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (11_1)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

3.0

2.1 (1.2)

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.6

6.5 (5.1)

Vulkan

1.3

1.2.170