GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GP104

GA107

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

December 2018

May 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1683 MHz

1057 MHz

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

7,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1920

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

35 Watt

Texture fill rate

202.0

67.65

Memory type

GDDR5X

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

8008 MHz

11 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

256.3 GB/s

176.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

6.1

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.6

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3