NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 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 41% (2475MHz vs 1755MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
3584 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (130W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+260%
29.15 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3050 OEM
8.087 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
1515 MHz
2475 MHz
Boost Clock
1755 MHz
2500 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
480.0GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
46
SM Count
18
5888
Shading Units
2304
184
TMUs
72
64
ROPs
32
184
Tensor Cores
72
46
RT Cores
18
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
36 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
158.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.16 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
126.4 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
8.087 TFLOPS
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.087 TFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
126.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
130W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
GA106
AD104-2XX-A1
GPU Variant
GA106-150-KA-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
5 nm
Process Size
8 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
12 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
276 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
6.6
