NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 48% (1740MHz vs 1178MHz)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +81%

7.127 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +509%

1841

GeForce GTX 970

302

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +132%

181

GeForce GTX 970

78

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +100%

30

GeForce GTX 970

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +100%

60

GeForce GTX 970

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +112%

85

GeForce GTX 970

40

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

38

GeForce GTX 970 +10%

42

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +68%

74

GeForce GTX 970

44

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +12%

110

GeForce GTX 970

98

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

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GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1545 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1664

64

TMUs

104

32

ROPs

56

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

55.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GM204

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

90W

TDP

148W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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