Gainward GeForce RTX 3050 Pegasus 6GB
vs
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the Gainward GeForce RTX 3050 Pegasus 6GB and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3050 Pegasus 6GB is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB and has 2304 texture shaders and 18 execution units.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970, which has 1664 shaders and 13 execution units.
Gainward GeForce RTX 3050 Pegasus 6GB GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GA107-325-A1 GPU Chip GM204-200-A1
Ampere Architecture Maxwell 2.0
18 Streaming Multiprocessors 13
2304 Shader 1664
32 Render Output Units 56
72 Texture Units 104
18 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3050 Pegasus 6GB has 6 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 168 GB/s.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 can access 4 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

6 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.753 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
168 GB/s Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
96 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3050 Pegasus 6GB clocks in the base with up to 1.042 GHz. The base frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 is 1.050 GHz.

1.042 GHz Base Clock 1.050 GHz
1.470 GHz Boost Clock 1.178 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the Gainward GeForce RTX 3050 Pegasus 6GB is 70 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the connector.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 has a TDP of 145 W and is supplied with the required energy via 2 x 6-Pin PCIe power connectors.

70 W TDP 145 W
-- TDP (up) --
93 °C Tjunction max 98 °C
PCIe-Power 2 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3050 Pegasus 6GB has a total of 1 Axial fans.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 has 1 Radial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
1 x 90 mm Fan 1 1 x 65 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the Gainward GeForce RTX 3050 Pegasus 6GB.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0
1x DP v1.4a DP Ports 3x DP v1.2
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3050 Pegasus 6GB supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 is 4096x2160 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC No
Decode AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 No

Dimensions

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3050 Pegasus 6GB is 162 mm long, 117 mm high and -- wide.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 is 267 mm long, 111 mm high and 40 mm wide.

162 mm Length 267 mm
117 mm Height 111 mm
-- Width 40 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16
No SFF-Ready No

Additional data

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3050 Pegasus 6GB was released in Q1/2024 at a price of 179 $ (Reference).

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 was introduced in Q3/2014 at a price of 299 $.

NE63050018JE-1070E Part-no --
Q1/2024 Release date Q3/2014
179 $ (Reference) Launch Price 299 $
8 nm Structure size 28 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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