NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3523 points

1% slightly better overall score

3468 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

82 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

55 FPS

59 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

41 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

31 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6954 points

11% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

6224 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1824.37 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

1484.67 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

86778 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

72998 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

74397 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

71667 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62864 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

56109 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76635 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

63483 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

72004 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

62406 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

885 MHz

1552 MHz

75% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz

1777 MHz

49% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

Identical

8 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

384 GB/s

71% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

62% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

75.84 Gigapixels/s

33% slightly higher pixel rate

56.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

170.6 Gigatexels/s

19% slightly higher texture rate

142.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.46 TFLOPS

9.10 TFLOPS

66% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

2560

11% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

79% 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

137th of 586

139th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3050 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3050 beats the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3050 has a significantly 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 3050 also has a significantly 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3050 at 130 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 is better than the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q.