NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 71% (2520MHz vs 1470MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (532.6GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (70W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5070 +357%

30.97 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Feb 2024

GeForce 50

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1042 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1470 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

96bit

532.6GB/s

Bandwidth

168.0GB/s

Render Config

-

48

SM Count

18

6144

Shading Units

2304

192

TMUs

72

64

ROPs

32

192

Tensor Cores

72

48

RT Cores

18

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

40 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

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Theoretical Performance

161.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

47.04 GPixel/s

483.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

105.8 GTexel/s

30.97 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.774 TFLOPS

30.97 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.774 TFLOPS

483.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

70W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GB205

GPU Name

GA107

GB205-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA107-325-K2-A1

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

0

Process Size

8 nm

Unknown

Transistors

8.7 billion

Unknown

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

10.1

CUDA

8.6

6.8

Shader Model

6.7

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