NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

Price

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$ 206.47

$ 432.53 significantly less expensive

$ 639.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1456 points

8845 points

507% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

31 FPS

210 FPS

179 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

21 FPS

104 FPS

82 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

151 FPS

129 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

83 FPS

66 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

35 FPS

118 FPS

83 FPS significantly higher God of War FPS

Fortnite FPS

Low settings at 1080p

137 FPS

289 FPS

152 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2341 points

14857 points

534% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

215.07 points

3754.04 points

1645% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

20616 points

165866 points

704% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22192 points

147200 points

563% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21230 points

104828 points

393% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21530 points

138062 points

541% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20196 points

131952 points

553% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1290 MHz

1575 MHz

22% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1392 MHz

1770 MHz

27% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

608.3 GB/s

442% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

286% significantly lower TDP

290 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

44.54 Gigapixels/s

169.9 Gigapixels/s

281% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

66.82 Gigatexels/s

339.8 Gigatexels/s

408% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.14 TFLOPS

21.75 TFLOPS

917% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

6144

700% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

300% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

237th of 586

45th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3070 Ti benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti at 290 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is better than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti.