NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 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 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1470MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +72%

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +33%

4831

GeForce GTX 970

3622

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

1664

72

TMUs

104

32

ROPs

56

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GM204

GA107-325-K2-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

70W

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

None

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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