GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs GTX 1070 Mobile
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We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile 4 GB with 16 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the 4 years and 5 months older GTX 1070 Mobile 8 GB that utilizes 16 pipelines and 2048 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
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Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
Scores marked with a red asterisk (**) represent initial estimates from early testing.
Key differences
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
- Manufactured using a more efficient 8 nm process technology
- Ray-tracing support with 16 dedicated RT cores
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
- Achieves 21% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (58K vs 48K)
- Features 64 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
- Includes 4 GB more video memory
- Has 33% higher memory bandwidth: 256.3 vs 192 GB/s
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 75 44 34 21 |
84 51 38 24 |
| The Witcher 3 | 68 53 38 20 |
78 59 41 20 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 115 80 54 23 |
126 88 60 26 |
| Far Cry 6 | 60 52 40 17 |
65 61 43 23 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 37 28 23 12 |
43 35 25 14 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 48 37 27 16 |
53 41 31 21 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 37 28 18 10 |
37 31 24 12 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 36 35 19 - |
43 39 20 10 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 66 62 39 18 |
72 65 44 21 |
| 1080p High | 60 | 67 |
| 1080p Ultra | 47 | 52 |
| 1440p Ultra | 32 | 36 |
| 4K Ultra | 16 | 19 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 4884 | 5540 |
| Solar Bay | 21596 | 14715 |
| Port Royal | 552 | 1208 |
| Fire Strike | 12571 | 17004 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 9400 | 11406 |
| Night Raid | 53685 | 56791 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 88.6 img/sec | 134.6 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 57.3 img/sec | 61.4 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 2.53 Gpixels/sec | 1.98 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 3.33 Gpixels/sec | 3.02 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 2.55 Gpixels/sec | 3.44 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.76 Gpixels/sec | 0.27 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 256.5 Gpixels/sec | 159.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 7465.5 FPS | 4611.7 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 493 | 603 |
| DirectX 11 | 71 FPS | 92 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 46 FPS | 34 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 3868 Ops/s | 4591 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-08-31 (bobschieffer) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 61418 |
| 📘 2026-08-29 (bobschieffer) | Cinebench 2024 | 3654 |
| 📘 2026-08-13 -> Kushagra_Aggarwal | Steel Nomad Light | 5735 |
| 📘 2026-01-26 (rar) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 68364 |
GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
No benchmark results yet
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 4349 | - |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 11416 | - |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 8973 | - |
| Face Detection (HP) | 18927 | - |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 34631 | - |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2269 | - |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 3539 | - |
| Object Detection (SP) | 5046 | - |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 15772 | - |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 75260 | - |
| Framework | ONNX | - |
| Backend | DirectML | - |
Specifications
Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop and GTX 1070 MobileGeneral
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | January 1, 2021 | August 15, 2016 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | High-end |
| Architecture | Ampere | Pascal |
| GPU Codename | GA107 | GP104 |
| Successor | - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop | - GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop |
| Recommended CPU | - | - Intel Core i7 8750H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (93rd and 110th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 712-1530 MHz (configurable) | 1442 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1057-1740 MHz (configurable) | 1645 MHz |
| Shading Units | 2048 | 2048 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 64 | 128 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 40 | 64 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 16 | 16 |
| Tensor Cores | 64 | No |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 16 | No |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 48KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | 2MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 42-70 GPixel/s | 105 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 68-111 GTexel/s | 211 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| TGP | 35-95 W (configurable) | 120 W |
| Manufacturing | Samsung | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 8 nm | 16 nm |
| Die Size | 200 mm² | 314 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 8.7 billion | 7.2 billion |
| Transistor Density | 43.5 MTr/mm² | 22.93 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Size | 4 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1500 MHz | 2002 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 12000 Mbps | 8008 Mbps |
| Bus | 128-bit | 256-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 1.2 |
| CUDA | 8.6 | 6.1 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | No |
| DLSS | DLSS 2 | No |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | - |
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