NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1740MHz vs 1683MHz)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

6.463 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +10%

7.127 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

641

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +187%

1841

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

116

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +56%

181

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1545 MHz

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

1920

Shading Units

2048

120

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

55.68 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

111.4 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.127 TFLOPS

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.127 TFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

111.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GA107

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

GA107-140-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

90W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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