NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 48% (1740MHz vs 1178MHz)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +81%

7.127 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 970

302

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +509%

1841

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 970

78

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +132%

181

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 970

15

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +100%

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

30

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +100%

60

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

40

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +112%

85

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 970 +10%

42

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

38

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

44

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +68%

74

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

98

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +12%

110

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1545 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

2048

104

TMUs

64

56

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

55.68 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

111.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

7.127 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.127 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

111.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GA107

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

GA107-140-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

90W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-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

5.2

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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