NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1740MHz vs 1725MHz)

Lower TDP (90W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +184%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

7.127 TFLOPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 +76%

53

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 +58%

95

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

60

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 +69%

144

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

85

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 +76%

46

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

26

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 +43%

56

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

39

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 +95%

82

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

42

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 +62%

81

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

50

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 +93%

141

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

73

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 +86%

188

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

101

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 +81%

69

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

38

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 +41%

105

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

74

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 +44%

159

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

110

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1545 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

2048

184

TMUs

64

96

ROPs

32

184

Tensor Cores

64

46

RT Cores

16

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

55.68 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

111.4 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.127 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.127 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

111.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GA107

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA107-140-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

90W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-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

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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