NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 graphics comparison: performance score, cores and clock speeds, VRAM, TGP, cache, and RT and AI units. The better value in each row is highlighted in green.
Summary
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A offers a smaller manufacturing process (5 nm vs 8 nm). NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 offers more compute units (CUDA cores: 5120 vs 1792), more VRAM (8 GB vs 4 GB), a wider memory bus (256 bit vs 64 bit), and more RT units (40 vs 14).
Performance score
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Key specs
CUDA cores1792
CUDA cores5120
BoostN/A
Boost1620 MHz
VRAM4 GB
VRAM8 GB
Memory bus64 bit
Memory bus256 bit
TGP35–95 W
TGP80–140 W
MemoryGDDR6
MemoryGDDR6
General
SeriesRTX 30 Mobile
SeriesRTX 30 Mobile
GPU architectureAda Lovelace
GPU architectureAmpere
GPU chipAD106
GPU chipGA104
Chip variantGN20-E5
FoundryTSMC
FoundrySamsung
Process node5 nm
Process node8 nm
Die size190 mm²
Die size392 mm²
Transistors22.9 billion
Transistors17.4 billion
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16
Release dateJuly 26, 2024
Release dateJanuary 12, 2021
Cores and clocks
CUDA cores1792
CUDA cores5120
14× SM
40× SM
Boost clock (max)N/A
Boost clock (max)1620 MHz
Boost clock (min)1290 MHz
Memory
VRAM4 GB
VRAM8 GB
MemoryGDDR6
MemoryGDDR6
Memory bus64 bit
Memory bus256 bit
Memory speedN/A
Memory speed14 Gb/s
BandwidthN/A
Bandwidth448 GB/s
TGP
TGP range35 - 80 W
TGP range80 - 125 W
Dynamic Boost15 W
Dynamic Boost15 W
Cache
L2 cacheN/A
L2 cache4 MB
L1 cache128 KB
L1 cache128 KB
Units
TMUs56
TMUs160
ROPs32
ROPs80
RT cores14
RT cores40
Tensor cores56
Tensor cores160
SM blocks14
SM blocks40
AI
AI performanceN/A
AI performanceN/A