NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q

We compared a Desktop platform GPU: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and a Mobile platform GPU: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 50% (1777MHz vs 1185MHz)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (90W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +66%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q

5.46 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

6247

GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q +9%

6833

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 2019

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 20 Mobile

Desktop

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

885 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1185 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

36

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

64

80

Tensor Cores

288

20

RT Cores

36

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.84 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

170.6 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.92 TFLOPS

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.460 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

170.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

TU106

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

N18E-G2-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

12 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

90W

300 W

Suggested PSU

-

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

8.6

CUDA

7.5

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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