NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +554%

7.127 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470

1.089 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 470

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Mar 2010

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1545 MHz

Base Clock

-

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

320bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

14

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

448

64

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

40

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

640 KB

Theoretical Performance

55.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GF100

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

GF100-275-A3

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

90W

TDP

215W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

2.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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