NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (2520MHz vs 1725MHz)

Lower TDP (100W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +57%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050

12.9 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

GeForce RTX 5050

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

2560

184

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

32

184

Tensor Cores

80

46

RT Cores

20

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.90 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GB207

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

GB207

Ampere

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

0 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

Unknown

392 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

220W

TDP

100W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-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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