NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 120.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (70W vs 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 71% (2520MHz vs 1470MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

4096 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070 +376%

32.26 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 5070

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR7

96bit

Memory Bus

192bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

120.0GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

50

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

6400

72

TMUs

200

32

ROPs

64

72

Tensor Cores

200

18

RT Cores

50

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

40 MB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

161.3 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

504.0 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

32.26 TFLOPS

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

32.26 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

504.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GB205

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

GB205

Ampere

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

0 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

Unknown

200 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

70W

TDP

220W

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 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

9.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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