NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1470MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +72%

6.774 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 970

3625

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +33%

4838

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Feb 2024

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1042 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1470 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

96bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

168.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

18

1664

Shading Units

2304

104

TMUs

72

56

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

47.04 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

105.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

6.774 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.774 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

70W

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

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GA107

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

GA107-325-K2-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

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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