NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 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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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Price

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$ 799.00

$ 379.99

$ 419.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

51 %

45% significantly better overall score

35 %

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

82 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

76 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

43 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

77 FPS

15 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

61 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

57 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

33 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8957

44% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

6202

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2312.25

45% significantly higher Blender score

1588.40

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

96024

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

72998

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

85818

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

71667

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

73515

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

56109

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

91360

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

66063

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

81605

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

65725

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1410 MHz

1552 MHz

10% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1620 MHz

1777 MHz

9% slightly 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

448 GB/s

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

175 W

130 W

34% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.7 Gigapixels/s

82% significantly higher pixel rate

56.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

233.3 Gigatexels/s

64% significantly higher texture rate

142.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.46 TFLOPS

9.10 TFLOPS

21% slightly 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

43rd of 360

65th of 360

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

October 2018

January 2022

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 vs GeForce RTX 3050 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 2070 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3050 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3050 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 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, 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 3050 has a slightly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2070 at 175 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 2070 is faster than the GeForce RTX 3050.