GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile vs RTX 3050 4GB Mobile

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking224not rated
Place by popularity60not in top-100
Power efficiency28.18no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameGN20-P0GB206
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date11 May 2021 (3 years ago)2025

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores20484608
Core clock speed1238 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHz2520 MHz
Manufacturing process technology8 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)115 Watt
Texture fill rateno data362.9
Floating-point processing powerno data23.22 TFLOPS
ROPsno data48
TMUsno data144
Tensor Coresno data144
Ray Tracing Coresno data36

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 5.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR7
Maximum RAM amount4 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed12000 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data507.2 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_212 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-10.1

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 115 Watt

RTX 3050 4GB Mobile has 91.7% lower power consumption.

RTX 5070 Mobile, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile and GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile
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