NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 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 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 42% (2475MHz vs 1740MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)
3840 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages
Lower TDP (90W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+309%
29.15 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
7.127 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2024
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1920 MHz
Base Clock
1545 MHz
2475 MHz
Boost Clock
1740 MHz
2500 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
480.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
46
SM Count
16
5888
Shading Units
2048
184
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
32
184
Tensor Cores
64
46
RT Cores
16
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
36 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
158.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
55.68 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
111.4 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
7.127 TFLOPS
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
7.127 TFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
111.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
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 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
GA107
AD104-2XX-A1
GPU Variant
GA107-140-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
5 nm
Process Size
8 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
8.7 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
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
8.9
CUDA
8.6
6.8
Shader Model
6.7
