Radeon HD 2900 XTX and GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB - video card comparison

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

R600

GA107

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

February 2024

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1470 MHz

Core clock speed

743 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

720 million

8,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

240 Watt

70 Watt

Texture fill rate

11.89

105.8

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

6 GB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

96 Bit

Memory clock speed

1656 MBps

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

106.0 GB/s

168.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

3.3 (full) Shader Model

4.06.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3