GeForce RTX 3050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 970

GeForce RTX 3050 Ti
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
GeForce RTX 3050 Ti
GeForce GTX 970
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Sep 2014
GeForce GTX 970

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 3050 Ti

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce RTX 3050 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce RTX 3050 Ti

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce RTX 3050 TiGeForce GTX 970
GPU NameGA106 (GA106-200-A1)vsGM204 (GM204-200-A1)
Fab Process8 nmvs28 nm
Die Size300 mm²vs398 mm²
Transistors13,250 millionvs5,200 million
Shaders3584vs1664
Compute Units28vs13
Core clock1350 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs64vs56
TMUs112vs104

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 3050 TiGeForce GTX 970
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 3050 TiGeForce GTX 970
TDP150 wattsvs148 watts
Release DateUNRELEASEDvs19 Sep 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3050 Ti
    108.00 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 970
    58.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3050 Ti
    188.90 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 970
    109.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 3050 Ti
    336.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 970
    224.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 3050 Ti
    12090.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 970
    3494.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better