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Radeon HD 8970M vs GeForce RTX 3050

Radeon HD 8970M vs GeForce RTX 3050: game performance, price, value, and specification comparison. Select comparison game parameters.

Key Differences

In short — GeForce RTX 3050 outperforms Radeon HD 8970M on the selected game parameters. We do not have the prices of both GPUs to compare value. The better performing GeForce RTX 3050 is 3157 days newer than Radeon HD 8970M.

Advantages of Radeon HD 8970M

  • Consumes up to 23% less energy than NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 - 100 vs 130 Watts

Advantages of GeForce RTX 3050

  • Performs up to 9% better in War Thunder than Radeon HD 8970M - 244 vs 224 FPS
  • Up to 100% more VRAM memory than AMD Radeon HD 8970M - 8 vs 4 GB
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War Thunder

War Thunder

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

Movie

AMD Radeon HD 8970M Logo
Radeon HD 8970M

Mobile • May 14th, 2013


FPS

224

92%

Value, €/FPS

Price, €

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Logo
GeForce RTX 3050

Desktop • Jan 4th, 2022


FPS

244

100%

Value, €/FPS

€0.82/FPS

100%

Price, €

€200.77

100%

FPS and Value Winner

Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3050 WINDFORCE OC 6G NVIDIA 6GB GDDR6

Buy for 200.77 on Amazon

In Stock

Updated 122 minutes ago

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With selected game settings

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

Movie

AMD Radeon HD 8970M Logo
Radeon HD 8970M

Mobile • May 14th, 2013

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Logo
GeForce RTX 3050

Desktop • Jan 4th, 2022

Theoretical Performance

AMD Radeon HD 8970M Logo
Radeon HD 8970M

Mobile • May 14th, 2013


Pixel Fillrate

28.8 GPixel/s

51%

Texel Fillrate

72 GTexel/s

51%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Logo
GeForce RTX 3050

Desktop • Jan 4th, 2022


Pixel Fillrate

56.86 GPixel/s

100%

Texel Fillrate

142.2 GTexel/s

100%

AMD Radeon HD 8970M Logo

Radeon HD 8970M

vs
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Logo

GeForce RTX 3050

May 14th, 2013Release Date
Jan 4th, 2022
Solar SystemGenerationGeForce 30
Not AvailableMSRP$249
NoneOutputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
NonePower Connectors1x 8-pin
Mobile
Segment
Desktop
4 GBMemory
8 GB
GDDR5TypeGDDR6
256-bitBus128-bit
153.6 GB/sBandwidth
224 GB/s
850 MHzBase Clock Speed
1552 MHz
900 MHzBoost Clock Speed
1777 MHz
1200 MHzMemory Clock Speed
1750 MHz

PCs Using Radeon HD 8970M or GeForce RTX 3050

With selected game settings

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