Radeon HD 8970 OEM and GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB - video card comparison

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Tahiti

GA107

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2013

February 2024

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1470 MHz

Core clock speed

925 MHz

Floating-point performance

3,789 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

8,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

250 Watt

70 Watt

Texture fill rate

118.4

105.8

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

96 Bit

Memory clock speed

5500 MHz

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

264.0 GB/s

168.0 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

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3