NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1683MHz vs 1470MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 8 months late

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070

6.463 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +4%

6.774 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1070 +25%

6066

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

4832

GeForce GTX 1070

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Feb 2024

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1042 MHz

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

1470 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

96bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

168.0GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

18

-

Compute Units

-

1920

Shading Units

2304

120

TMUs

72

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

47.04 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

105.8 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.774 TFLOPS

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.774 TFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GA107

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

GA107-325-K2-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

70W

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

None

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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