NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 68% (2475MHz vs 1470MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 168.0GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Lower TDP (70W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 +330%

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

6.774 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4070 +269%

17861

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

4831

GeForce RTX 4070

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GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

Graphics Card

Apr 2023

Release Date

Feb 2024

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1920 MHz

Base Clock

1042 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

1470 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

96bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

168.0GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

18

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

2304

184

TMUs

72

64

ROPs

32

184

Tensor Cores

72

46

RT Cores

18

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

36 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

47.04 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

105.8 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.774 TFLOPS

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.774 TFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GA107

AD104-250-A1

GPU Variant

GA107-325-K2-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

295 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

70W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-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

8.9

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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