GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs Radeon HD 7950M

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated201
Place by popularitynot in top-10024
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data76.18
Power efficiencyno data27.17
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameWimbledonGA107
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date24 April 2012 (12 years ago)2 February 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$179

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores12802304
Core clock speed700 MHz1042 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1470 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 million8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt70 Watt
Texture fill rate56.00105.8
Floating-point processing power1.792 TFLOPS6.774 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs8072
Tensor Coresno data72
Ray Tracing Coresno data18

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 4.0 x8
Lengthno data242 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth128.0 GB/s168.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 April 2012 2 February 2024
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 70 Watt

RTX 3050 6 GB has an age advantage of 11 years, a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 250% more advanced lithography process, and 7.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7950M and GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7950M is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB is a desktop one.


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