NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 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 224.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 51% (1777MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

896 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +132%

9.098 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 970

3625

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +72%

6261

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 970

15

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +33%

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

30

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +40%

42

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

40

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +105%

82

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 970 +35%

42

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

31

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 970 +10%

44

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

40

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

98

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +12%

110

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 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

1552 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

1664

Shading Units

2560

104

TMUs

80

56

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

130W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 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 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GA106

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

12 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

276 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

6.6

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