NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 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 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
3328 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 2% (2520MHz vs 2475MHz)
Lower TDP (130W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+125%
29.15 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 5050
12.9 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2024
Release Date
Jan 2025
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1920 MHz
Base Clock
2235 MHz
2475 MHz
Boost Clock
2520 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
20
5888
Shading Units
2560
184
TMUs
80
64
ROPs
32
184
Tensor Cores
80
46
RT Cores
20
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
36 MB
L2 Cache
32 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
158.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
80.64 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
201.6 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
12.90 TFLOPS
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.90 TFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
201.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
130W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
GB207
AD104-2XX-A1
GPU Variant
GB207-300-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
5 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
Unknown
294 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.4
8.9
CUDA
10.1
6.8
Shader Model
6.8
