NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 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 and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1777MHz vs 1620MHz)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 175W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +21%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070

7.465 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

6242

GeForce RTX 2070 +42%

8875

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

20

GeForce RTX 2070 +85%

37

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

42

GeForce RTX 2070 +61%

68

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

82

GeForce RTX 2070 +19%

98

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

22

GeForce RTX 2070 +45%

32

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

28

GeForce RTX 2070 +32%

37

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

38

GeForce RTX 2070 +44%

55

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

29

GeForce RTX 2070 +86%

54

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

65

GeForce RTX 2070 +47%

96

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

82

GeForce RTX 2070 +56%

128

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

40

GeForce RTX 2070 +115%

86

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

48

GeForce RTX 2070 +87%

90

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

114

GeForce RTX 2070 +56%

178

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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GeForce RTX 2070

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552MHz

Base Clock

1410MHz

1777MHz

Boost Clock

1620MHz

1750MHz

Memory Clock

1750MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0 GB/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)

2MB

L2 Cache

4MB

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.7 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

233.3 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.93 TFLOPS

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.465 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

233.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

TU106

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

TU106-400A-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

12,000 million

Transistors

10,800 million

276mm²

Die Size

445mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

175W

300W

Suggested PSU

450W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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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