NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop, 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

3468 points
7909 points
128% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS
190 FPS
108 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS
95 FPS
54 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

59 FPS
137 FPS
78 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

31 FPS
76 FPS
45 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1484.67 points
3588.48 points
141% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

63483 points
109744 points
72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62406 points
112405 points
80% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1552 MHz
11% slightly higher core clock speed
1395 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz
4% slightly higher boost clock speed
1695 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
Identical
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s
256 GB/s
14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

130 W
115 W
13% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.86 Gigapixels/s
81.36 Gigapixels/s
43% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

142.2 Gigatexels/s
244.1 Gigatexels/s
71% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.10 TFLOPS
15.62 TFLOPS
71% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560
4608
79% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

80
144
79% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
48
49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

139th of 586
57th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January
2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3050 vs GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3050 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 3050 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop has a slightly lower TDP at 115 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3050 at 130 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop over the GeForce RTX 3050.

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