NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 229.99
$ 590.00 significantly less expensive
$ 819.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3468 points
19081 points
450% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS
424 FPS
341 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS
223 FPS
182 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

59 FPS
323 FPS
264 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

31 FPS
180 FPS
149 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6224 points
6821 points
9% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1484.67 points
7588.31 points
411% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

63483 points
239264 points
276% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62406 points
228386 points
265% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1552 MHz
2295 MHz
47% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz
2452 MHz
37% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

224 GB/s
896 GB/s
300% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

130 W
130% significantly lower TDP
300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.86 Gigapixels/s
235.4 Gigapixels/s
313% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

142.2 Gigatexels/s
686.6 Gigatexels/s
382% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560
8960
250% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

80
280
250% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
96
200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

139th of 586
11th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January
2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR7

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 5070 Ti comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3050 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 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 5070 Ti also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 has a significantly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti at 300 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 5070 Ti over the GeForce RTX 3050.

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