NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8113 points

88% significantly better overall score

4302 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

197 FPS

93 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

104 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

53 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS

65 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

76 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

41 FPS

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Gaming Benchmarks

Far Cry 6 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

108 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Far Cry 6 FPS

75 FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

127 FPS

55 FPS significantly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

72 FPS

Rainbow Six Siege FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

265 FPS

70 FPS significantly higher Rainbow Six Siege FPS

195 FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

76 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

51 FPS

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3380.77 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

2581.07 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

75551 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

75827 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

3% slightly higher core clock speed

1455 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz

1755 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

166% significantly larger memory bus width

96 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

133% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

220 W

50 W

339% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s

194% significantly higher pixel rate

56.16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s

126% significantly higher texture rate

140.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.31 TFLOPS

126% significantly better floating point performance

8.99 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888

129% significantly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

129% 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

53rd of 586

118th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2023 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 3070 vs GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3070 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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop 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.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 at 220 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 3070 is better than the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop.