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GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon HD 7870 XT

Intro

The GeForce RTX 3050 features a core clock frequency of 1552 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 8 nm design. It is comprised of 2560 SPUs, 80 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 7870 XT, which has a clock speed of 925 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1500 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 1536 SPUs, 96 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050 130 Watts
Radeon HD 7870 XT 185 Watts
Difference: 55 Watts (42%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 3050 should theoretically be a small bit better than the Radeon HD 7870 XT in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050 229376 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7870 XT 192000 MB/sec
Difference: 37376 (19%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 will be a lot (approximately 40%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 7870 XT. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050 124160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7870 XT 88800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 35360 (40%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3050 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050 49664 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7870 XT 29600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 20064 (68%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce RTX 3050 Radeon HD 7870 XT
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 2022 November 2012
Code Name Ampere GA106-150-KA-A1 Tahiti LE
Memory 8192 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 1552 MHz 925 MHz
Memory Speed 1750 GB/s 6000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 130 watts 185 watts
Bandwidth 229376 MB/sec 192000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 124160 Mtexels/sec 88800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 49664 Mpixels/sec 29600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2560 1536
Texture Mapping Units 80 96
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 8 nm 28 nm
Transistors 12000 million 4313 million
Bus PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 11.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce RTX 3050

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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