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GeForce RTX 3050 vs GTX 1070

GeForce RTX 3050
VS
GeForce GTX 1070
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050
GA106
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070
GP104

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 3050 with 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 6 years and 2 months older GTX 1070 that utilizes 15 pipelines and 1920 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
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

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
8 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR5
47.6
(Average)
Value Index
43.5
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of GTX 1070 over RTX 3050
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3050
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 8 nm process technology
  • 40% higher maximum theoretical performance (9.1 vs 6.5 TFLOPS)
  • Ray-tracing support with 20 dedicated RT cores
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
  • Achieves 25% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (67K vs 53K)
  • Has 33% more shading units (2560 vs 1920)
  • Features 80 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RTX 3050
vs
GTX 1070

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
92
53
43
26
88
50
41
25
The Witcher 3
90
70
49
24
83
68
47
25
Counter-Strike 2
139
101
72
31
135
95
68
32
Far Cry 6
76
66
49
25
73
64
47
24
Hogwarts Legacy
49
38
30
13
45
38
29
13
CoD: Modern Warfare III
59
49
35
22
54
49
33
22
Ghost of Tsushima
46
35
28
15
43
31
24
13
Cyberpunk 2077
48
45
26
11
45
44
24
10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
80
73
49
25
79
73
48
25
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 75 72
1080p Ultra 59 57
1440p Ultra 42 40
4K Ultra 21 21
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RTX 3050 +8%
6348
GTX 1070
5858
Time Spy 6235 6091
Solar Bay 30191 16030
Port Royal 3546 1283
Fire Strike 15967 18705
Wild Life Extreme 12795 12186
Night Raid 74854 72459
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RTX 3050 +25%
67028
GTX 1070
53429
Background Blur 110.4 img/sec 142.3 img/sec
Face Detection 64.4 img/sec 65.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.87 Gpixels/sec 2.2 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.76 Gpixels/sec 3.23 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.89 Gpixels/sec 3.74 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.81 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 270.9 Gpixels/sec 195.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 9339.7 FPS 5161.6 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RTX 3050 +33%
4722
GTX 1070
3551

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RTX 3050
12471
GTX 1070 +8%
13511
G2D Mark 916 848
DirectX 11 90 FPS 99 FPS
DirectX 12 59 FPS 49 FPS
GPU Compute 6415 Ops/s 6123 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 9379 & 53848 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RTX 3050 +163%
1462.18
GTX 1070
556.54
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 1092 & 1387 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce RTX 3050
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-04-21 -> DmitryDmitryCinebench 20244722
📘 2026-04-21 -> DmitryDmitrySteel Nomad Light6237
Add View all (2)
GeForce GTX 1070
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-08-09 (yourtrain)Geekbench 6 OpenCL53862
📘 2026-08-09 (yourtrain)Cinebench 20243551
Add View all (2)

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RTX 3050 +42%
11848
GTX 1070
8330
GB6 ML Half Precision
RTX 3050 +158%
21368
GTX 1070
8293
GB6 ML Quantized
RTX 3050 +28%
7905
GTX 1070
6176
Image Classification (SP) 4958 2295
Image Segmentation (HP) 12747 4955
Image Super Resolution (Q) 9816 10587
Face Detection (HP) 22467 8747
Pose Estimation (Q) 41362 51263
Text Classification (SP) 2563 1461
Machine Translation (HP) 3721 2342
Object Detection (SP) 5929 2960
Depth Estimation (Q) 18361 15275
Style Transfer (SP) 84665 104907
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 3050 and GTX 1070

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 27, 2022 January 10, 2016
Launch price (MSRP) $249 $379
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture Ampere Pascal
GPU Codename GA106 GP104
Rival Equivalent - - Radeon RX 5600 XT
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5070
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 12400 or above - Intel Core i7 7700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (71st and 76th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1552 MHz 1506 MHz
Boost Clock 1777 MHz 1683 MHz
Shading Units 2560 1920
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 80 120
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 20 15
Tensor Cores 80 No
Ray-tracing Cores 20 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 57 GPixel/s 108 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 142 GTexel/s 202 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RTX 3050 +40%
9.1 TFLOPS
GTX 1070
6.5 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 130 W 150 W
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
Fabrication Process 8 nm 16 nm
Die Size 276 mm² 314 mm²
Transistor Count 12 billion 7 billion
Transistor Density 43.48 MTr/mm² 22.29 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2002 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 8000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RTX 3050
224 GB/s
GTX 1070 +14%
256.3 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 8.6 6.1
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS DLSS 2 No
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a
Further details
Notes on GTX 1070:
    - There's a version with GDDR5X memory.

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