NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 559.30
$ 249.99
$ 309.31 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8113 points
47% significantly better overall score
5507 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

197 FPS
62 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
135 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS
31 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
66 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS
46 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
94 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS
25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
52 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

13651 points
489% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
2317 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3380.77 points
17% slightly higher Blender score
2880.41 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
97092 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points
31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
91845 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz
2317 MHz
54% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz
2572 MHz
49% 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

448 GB/s
40% slightly higher memory bandwidth
320 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

220 W
130 W
69% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s
101% significantly higher pixel rate
82.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s
54% significantly higher texture rate
205.8 Gigatexels/s

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
80

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

96
200% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

53rd of 586
91st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September
2025 July

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 3070 vs GeForce RTX 5050 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 5050 in our tests.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 is better than the GeForce RTX 5050.

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