NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1777MHz vs 1683MHz)

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070

6.463 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107 +40%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB GA107

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1552 MHz

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

1920

Shading Units

2560

120

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GA107

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

GA107-150-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

314 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

150W

TDP

115W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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