NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 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 8 GB 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 120.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (130W vs 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (2520MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

3840 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070 +254%

32.26 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 5070

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR7

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

120.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

50

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

6400

80

TMUs

200

32

ROPs

64

80

Tensor Cores

200

20

RT Cores

50

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

40 MB

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

161.3 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

504.0 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

32.26 TFLOPS

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

32.26 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

504.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GB205

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GB205

Ampere

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

0 nm

12 billion

Transistors

Unknown

276 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

130W

TDP

220W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

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

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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