GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs GeForce RTX 5070
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB Advantages
Lower TDP (130W vs 250W)
GeForce RTX 5070 Advantages
Released 3 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 41% (2512MHz vs 1777MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
3584 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
9098
GeForce RTX 5070
+239%
30870
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
1328
GeForce RTX 5070
+1597%
22544
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Mar 2025
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1552 MHz
Base Clock
2325 MHz
1777 MHz
Boost Clock
2512 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR7
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
672.0GB/s
Render Config
20
SM Count
48
2560
Shading Units
6144
80
TMUs
192
32
ROPs
80
80
Tensor Cores
192
20
RT Cores
48
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
Theoretical Performance
56.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
201.0 GPixel/s
142.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
482.3 GTexel/s
9.098 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
30.87 TFLOPS
9.098 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
30.87 TFLOPS
142.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
482.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
130W
TDP
250W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GA106
GPU Name
GB205
GA106-150-KA-A1
GPU Variant
GB205-300-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
5 nm
12 billion
Transistors
31.1 billion
276 mm²
Die Size
263 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
1.4
8.6
CUDA
10.1
6.6
Shader Model
6.8
