NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
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)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2070
7.465 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
+21%
9.098 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 2070
+584%
9088
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
1328
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 2070
+85%
37
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
20
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 2070
+61%
68
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
42
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 2070
+19%
98
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
82
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
GeForce RTX 2070
+45%
32
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
22
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
GeForce RTX 2070
+32%
37
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
28
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
GeForce RTX 2070
+44%
55
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
38
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 2070
+86%
54
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
29
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 2070
+47%
96
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
65
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 2070
+56%
128
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
82
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 2070
+177%
86
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
31
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 2070
+125%
90
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
40
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 2070
+61%
178
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
110
Graphics Card
Oct 2018
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 20
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1410 MHz
Base Clock
1552 MHz
1620 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
36
SM Count
20
2304
Shading Units
2560
144
TMUs
80
64
ROPs
32
288
Tensor Cores
80
36
RT Cores
20
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
103.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.86 GPixel/s
233.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
142.2 GTexel/s
14.93 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
9.098 TFLOPS
7.465 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.098 TFLOPS
233.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
142.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
175W
TDP
130W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
TU106
GPU Name
GA106
TU106-400A-A1
GPU Variant
GA106-150-KA-A1
Turing
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
12 nm
Process Size
8 nm
10.8 billion
Transistors
12 billion
445 mm²
Die Size
276 mm²
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
7.5
CUDA
8.6
6.6
Shader Model
6.6
