NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 '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 (115W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 +132%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

1664

80

TMUs

104

32

ROPs

56

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

148W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GM204

GA107-150-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

5.2 billion

Unknown

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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