NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
Mar 2025
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 50
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1552 MHz
2325 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
2512 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR7
Memory Bus
128bit
192bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
672.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
20
48
Shading Units
2560
6144
TMUs
80
192
ROPs
32
80
Tensor Cores
80
192
RT Cores
20
48
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
48 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
56.86 GPixel/s
201.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
142.2 GTexel/s
482.3 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
9.098 TFLOPS
30.87 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.098 TFLOPS
30.87 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
142.2 GFLOPS
482.3 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
GB205
GPU Variant
GA106-150-KA-A1
GB205-300-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Blackwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
5 nm
Transistors
12 billion
31.1 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
263 mm²
Board Design
TDP
130W
250W
Suggested PSU
300 W
600 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 16-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
CUDA
8.6
12.0
Shader Model
6.6
6.8
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
22,544
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
10,789
3DMark Speed Way
—
5,896
Blender
—
6,218
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.