Radeon HD 4870 and GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 4870

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

RV770

GA107

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

June 2008

December 2022

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

750 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,200.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

956 million

8,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

800

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

115 Watt

Texture fill rate

30.00

142.2

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

3600 MHz

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

115.2 GB/s

224.0 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

1.1

3.0

OpenGL

3.3

4.6

Shader Model

4.1

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3