GeForce GTX 1070 SLI and GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1070 SLI

GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Pascal GP104 SLI

GA107

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

August 2016

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

SLI options

Boost clock speed

1683 MHz

1207 MHz

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

14400 Million

8,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3840

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

300 Watt

35 Watt

Texture fill rate

77.25

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2x 8 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

12 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

192.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

Portable Device Dependent

G-SYNC support

DirectX

12_1

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.7

Vulkan

1.3

VR Ready