GeForce RTX 3070 vs GeForce RTX 2050

GeForce RTX 3070
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Sep 2020
GeForce RTX 3070
GeForce RTX 2050
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
GeForce RTX 2050

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 3070

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 RTX 2050

100 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce RTX 3070 .
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)

GeForce RTX 3070

HWBench recommends GeForce RTX 3070

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce RTX 3070GeForce RTX 2050
GPU NameGA104 (GA104-300-A1)vsTU107 (TU107)
Fab Process8 nmvs12 nm
Die Size392 mm²vs0 mm²
Transistors17,400 millionvsunknown
Shaders5888vs896
Compute Units46vs14
Core clock1500 MHzvs1515 MHz
ROPs64vs32
TMUs184vs56

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 3070GeForce RTX 2050
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR6
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective
vs1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 3070GeForce RTX 2050
TDP220 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date1 Sep 2020vsUNRELEASED

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3070
    110.40 GP/s
  • GeForce RTX 2050
    54.24 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3070
    317.40 GT/s
  • GeForce RTX 2050
    94.92 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 3070
    448.00 GB/s
  • GeForce RTX 2050
    224.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 3070
    20310.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce RTX 2050
    3037.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better