GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q vs RTX 3050 8 GB

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking165not rated
Place by popularity11not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation69.36no data
Power efficiency17.26no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGA106AD106
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date4 January 2022 (2 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$249 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores25604608
Core clock speed1552 MHz735 MHz
Boost clock speed1777 MHz1230 MHz
Number of transistors12,000 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology8 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)130 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate142.2177.1
Floating-point processing power9.098 TFLOPS11.34 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs80144
Tensor Cores80144
Ray Tracing Cores2036

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x16
Length242 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinNone

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/s224.0 GB/s

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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4aPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.68.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2022 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 8 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 130 Watt 35 Watt

RTX 4070 Max-Q has an age advantage of 11 months, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 271.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q is a notebook one.


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