NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

nvidia

Brand

8GB GDDR6

Memory

5888

Cores

448 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 3070

$520.00 Aug 2020 View Details

$520.00

$847.00

nvidia

Brand

8GB GDDR6

Memory

2560

Cores

320 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 5050

$209.99 Jul 2025 View Details

$249.99

$209.99

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

8GB GDDR6 220W $520.00 Aug 2020

GeForce RTX 3070

$499 • Aug 2020

GeForce RTX 5050

$249 • Jul 2025

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

8GB GDDR6 130W $209.99 Jul 2025

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050
Memory Size	8 GB	8 GB
Memory Type	GDDR6	GDDR6
TDP	220 W	130 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1725 MHz	2572 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	448 GB/s	320 GB/s
Process Size	8nm	5nm
Architecture	Ampere	Blackwell 2.0
Shading Units	5888	2560
RT Cores	46	20
TMUs	184	80
ROPs	96	32
Memory Bus	256-bit	128-bit
Memory Clock	1750 MHz	2500 MHz
Pixel Rate	165.6 GPixel/s	82.3 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	448 GTexel/s	205.8 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	20.31 GFLOPS	13.17 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	4.00 MB	24.00 MB
Die Size	392 mm²	149 mm²
Transistors	17400 Million	16900 Million
Required PSU	550 W	300 W
Power Connectors	1x 12-pin	1x 8-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 5.0 x8
DirectX	12.2	12.2
Vulkan	1.3	1.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	Samsung	TSMC

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

14126 (+34%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

10522

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

126195 (+37%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

92181

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

170.2 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

FPS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

22256 (+28%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

17421

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Game Benchmarks Comparison (12 benchmarks)

God of War Ragnarok

7.7 2024 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Santa Monica Studio, Jetpack Interactive

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+11%)

AVG 70 FPS

MIN 61 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050

AVG 63 FPS

MIN 54 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+16%)

AVG 58 FPS

MIN 49 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050

AVG 50 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+10%)

AVG 34 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 28 FPS

Winner

Loser

Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition Background

Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition

7.7 2024 • Action, RPG • Guerrilla, Nixxes Software

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 39 FPS

MIN 33 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050 (+51%)

AVG 59 FPS

MIN 53 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 28 FPS

MIN 24 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050 (+64%)

AVG 46 FPS

MIN 41 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 23 FPS

MIN 19 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050 (+22%)

AVG 28 FPS

MIN 23 FPS

Winner

Loser

Forza Horizon 5

8 2021 • Action, Adventure, Racing, Simulation, Sport • Playground Games

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 89 FPS

MIN 78 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050 (+4%)

AVG 93 FPS

MIN 77 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+14%)

AVG 75 FPS

MIN 65 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050

AVG 66 FPS

MIN 55 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+20%)

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 41 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050

AVG 41 FPS

MIN 35 FPS

Winner

Loser

The Last of Us Part I

8.5 2022 • Action, Adventure • Naughty Dog LLC, Iron Galaxy Studios

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+47%)

AVG 75 FPS

MIN 62 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050

AVG 51 FPS

MIN 47 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+49%)

AVG 55 FPS

MIN 51 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050

AVG 37 FPS

MIN 35 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+14%)

AVG 24 FPS

MIN 22 FPS

GeForce RTX 5050

AVG 21 FPS

MIN 20 FPS

Winner

Loser

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Wins!

Based on 12 benchmarks across 4 games

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

+5.6%

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 5050