NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Price

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$ 639.00

$ 249.99

$ 389.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8845 points

60% significantly better overall score

5507 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

210 FPS

76 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

135 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

104 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

66 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

151 FPS

57 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

94 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

52 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

14857 points

541% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2317 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3754.04 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

2880.41 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

138062 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

97092 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

131952 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

91845 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1575 MHz

2317 MHz

47% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1770 MHz

2572 MHz

45% significantly higher boost clock speed

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

608.3 GB/s

90% significantly higher memory bandwidth

320 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

290 W

130 W

123% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

169.9 Gigapixels/s

106% significantly higher pixel rate

82.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

339.8 Gigatexels/s

65% significantly higher texture rate

205.8 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

6144

139% significantly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

139% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

45th of 586

91st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

2025 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs GeForce RTX 5050 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti beats the GeForce RTX 5050 in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 5050 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 5050 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.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5050 has a significantly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti at 290 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is better than the GeForce RTX 5050.