Radeon HD 8870 OEM and GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB - video card comparison

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Pitcairn

GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2013

January 2022

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

1000 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,560 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

2,800 million

12,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

175 Watt

130 Watt

Texture fill rate

80.00

142.2

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

153.6 GB/s

224.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.6

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3