NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (2475MHz vs 1740MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

7.127 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 +309%

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Aug 2024

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1545 MHz

Base Clock

1920 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

2475 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

480.0GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

46

2048

Shading Units

5888

64

TMUs

184

32

ROPs

64

Tensor Cores

184

16

RT Cores

46

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

36 MB

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Theoretical Performance

55.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

158.4 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

455.4 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.15 TFLOPS

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.15 TFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

455.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

AD104

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

AD104-2XX-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

8.9

6.7

Shader Model

6.8

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