NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 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 3 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1740MHz vs 1683MHz)
128 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (90W vs 150W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+10%
7.127 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
6.463 TFLOPS
Blender
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+132%
1528
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
657
OctaneBench
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+52%
175
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
115
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Dec 2018
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1545 MHz
Base Clock
1506 MHz
1740 MHz
Boost Clock
1683 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5X
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.0GB/s
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
16
SM Count
15
2048
Shading Units
1920
64
TMUs
120
32
ROPs
64
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
55.68 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
107.7 GPixel/s
111.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
202.0 GTexel/s
7.127 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
101.0 GFLOPS
7.127 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.463 TFLOPS
111.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
202.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
90W
TDP
150W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 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
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
GP104
GA107-140-A1
GPU Variant
GP104-200-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Pascal
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
16 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²
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
6.1
6.7
Shader Model
6.4
