NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2086 points

2615 points

25% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

51 FPS

64 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

36 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

32 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS

45 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

25 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

512.01 points

1161.74 points

126% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

38193 points

58544 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39907 points

55123 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41167 points

47251 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40339 points

51045 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39132 points

53105 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1379 MHz

11% slightly higher core clock speed

1238 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1379 MHz

1500 MHz

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

192 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

75 W

20% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

88.26 Gigapixels/s

160% significantly higher pixel rate

33.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

176.5 Gigatexels/s

160% significantly higher texture rate

67.65 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.65 TFLOPS

30% slightly better floating point performance

4.33 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

Identical

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

204th of 586

170th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q 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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q.