NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Lower TDP (70W vs 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 68% (2475MHz vs 1470MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 +330%

29.15 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

4838

GeForce RTX 4070 +269%

17856

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 4070

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Apr 2023

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

1920 MHz

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

2475 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

96bit

Memory Bus

192bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

-

18

SM Count

46

2304

Shading Units

5888

72

TMUs

184

32

ROPs

64

72

Tensor Cores

184

18

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

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

158.4 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

455.4 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.15 TFLOPS

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.15 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

455.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

70W

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

AD104

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

AD104-250-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

295 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

6.7

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