NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Feb 2024
Sep 2014
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1042 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
1470 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
96bit
256bit
Bandwidth
168.0GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
18
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Shading Units
2304
1664
TMUs
72
104
ROPs
32
56
Tensor Cores
72
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RT Cores
18
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
47.04 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
105.8 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
6.774 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
6.774 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
105.8 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA107
GM204
GPU Variant
GA107-325-K2-A1
GM204-200-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
8.7 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
70W
148W
Suggested PSU
250 W
300 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.4
1.3
CUDA
8.6
5.2
Shader Model
6.8
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
4,853
3,646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
2,182
1,683
3DMark Speed Way
1,123
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OctaneBench
—
77
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
40
Blender
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305
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.