Radeon HD 3870 AGP and GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB - video card comparison
Radeon HD 3870 AGP
GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
RV670
GA107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
-
February 2024
Interface
AGP 8x
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
-
1470 MHz
Core clock speed
777 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
8,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
106 Watt
70 Watt
Texture fill rate
12.43
105.8
Memory type
GDDR4
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
6 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
96 Bit
Memory clock speed
2.3 GB/s
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
72.06 GB/s
168.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
N/A
3.0
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
Shader Model
4.16.7
Vulkan
N/A
1.3