NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile Comparison

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The recorded data contains two directly comparable benchmark results, and both favor the newer NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile by a wide margin. In Geekbench OpenCL, the RTX 3050 Mobile scores 50,038 points, while the RTX 5070 Mobile reaches 122,238 points. That is a 59.1% advantage for the RTX 5070 Mobile, meaning it delivers roughly 2.4 times the compute throughput in this test. The gap is nearly identical in Geekbench Vulkan: the RTX 3050 Mobile posts 49,051 points, and the RTX 5070 Mobile answers with 116,960 points, a 58.1% lead. Both head-to-head wins belong to the RTX 5070 Mobile, so the older Ampere part does not take a single victory in the shared test suite.

Looking beyond the direct comparison, the RTX 3050 Mobile's average benchmark score across all recorded tests is 33,170, placing it at the 78th percentile among all GPUs in the database. Its closest rivals include the NVIDIA T550 Mobile at 33,161 (0% difference), the AMD Radeon Pro 570 at 33,207 (0.1% behind the RTX 3050 Mobile), the NVIDIA P104-100 at 32,982 (0.6% ahead of the RTX 3050 Mobile), and the NVIDIA T600 Mobile at 32,849 (1% ahead of the RTX 3050 Mobile). These are tight margins, showing that the RTX 3050 Mobile sits in a crowded performance band where a few percent separates adjacent products.

The RTX 5070 Mobile's average benchmark score is 29,928, which places it at the 75th percentile, slightly lower than the RTX 3050 Mobile's percentile despite its massive head-to-head wins. This apparent contradiction is explained by the RTX 5070 Mobile's benchmark pool, which includes several Passmark tests with low absolute scores. The nearest rivals for the RTX 5070 Mobile are the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti at 29,945 (0.1% ahead of the RTX 5070 Mobile), the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti at 29,783 (0.5% behind), the AMD Radeon RX 6800 at 30,095 (0.6% ahead), and the AMD Radeon RX 6700 at 30,433 (1.7% ahead). The RTX 5070 Mobile is thus competitive with previous-generation desktop flagships, while the RTX 3050 Mobile aligns with lower-end professional laptop parts.

Architecture Differences

The two GPUs come from different architectural generations. The RTX 3050 Mobile uses the GA107 chip built on Ampere architecture, fabricated on an 8 nm process at Samsung. The RTX 5070 Mobile uses the GB206 chip built on Blackwell 2.0 architecture, fabricated on a 5 nm process at TSMC. The process shrink brings substantial transistor density changes: the GA107 packs 8,700 million transistors into a 200 mm² die, yielding 43.5 million transistors per square millimeter. The GB206 packs 21,900 million transistors into a smaller 181 mm² die, yielding 121.0 million transistors per square millimeter. That is nearly triple the density, which explains how the newer chip fits far more compute units into a physically smaller package.

Shader resources differ dramatically. The RTX 3050 Mobile has 2,048 shading units, 64 texture mapping units, and 32 raster output pipelines. The RTX 5070 Mobile more than doubles the shading units to 4,608, increases TMUs to 144, and raises ROPs to 48. Ray tracing cores jump from 16 on the RTX 3050 Mobile to 36 on the RTX 5070 Mobile, and tensor cores go from 64 to 144. These structural increases feed directly into throughput metrics: the RTX 3050 Mobile delivers 5.501 TFLOPS of FP32 and FP16 (1:1 ratio), while the RTX 5070 Mobile delivers 13.13 TFLOPS in both, a factor of roughly 2.4. Pixel fill rate rises from 42.98 GPixel/s to 68.40 GPixel/s, and texture fill rate jumps from 85.95 GTexel/s to 205.2 GTexel/s.

Memory architecture also separates the two. The RTX 3050 Mobile has 4 GB of GDDR6 on a 128-bit bus, with 192.0 GB/s of bandwidth and 12 Gbps effective memory speed. The RTX 5070 Mobile doubles capacity to 8 GB of GDDR7 on the same 128-bit bus, but bandwidth jumps to 384.0 GB/s thanks to 24 Gbps effective memory speed. Interface differences are notable: the RTX 3050 Mobile uses PCIe 4.0 x8, while the RTX 5070 Mobile uses PCIe 5.0 x16. Both are integrated graphics packages (IGP) with no power connectors, and both support DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4.

Clock behavior is counterintuitive. The RTX 3050 Mobile has a higher base clock at 1065 MHz versus 907 MHz, but the RTX 5070 Mobile has a higher boost clock at 1425 MHz versus 1343 MHz. The RTX 5070 Mobile also carries a higher TDP at 50 W versus 45 W, a modest increase given the large compute advantage. The RTX 3050 Mobile is end-of-life, released in May 2021, while the RTX 5070 Mobile is active, released in April 2025.

FAQ

Q: Which GPU wins in Geekbench OpenCL?

A: The RTX 5070 Mobile scores 122,238 points versus the RTX 3050 Mobile's 50,038 points, a 59.1% advantage.

Q: How much faster is the RTX 5070 Mobile in Vulkan?

A: The RTX 5070 Mobile scores 116,960 points versus 49,051 points for the RTX 3050 Mobile, a 58.1% lead.

Q: What is the memory capacity difference?

A: The RTX 3050 Mobile has 4 GB of GDDR6, while the RTX 5070 Mobile has 8 GB of GDDR7.

Q: Which GPU has higher bandwidth?

A: The RTX 5070 Mobile delivers 384.0 GB/s, exactly double the RTX 3050 Mobile's 192.0 GB/s.

Q: How do their average benchmark scores compare?

A: The RTX 3050 Mobile averages 33,170 points across all tests, while the RTX 5070 Mobile averages 29,928 points, despite the newer GPU winning both head-to-head tests.

Q: What are the nearest rivals for each GPU?

A: The RTX 3050 Mobile's closest competitor is the NVIDIA T550 Mobile at 33,161 points (0% delta). The RTX 5070 Mobile's closest competitor is the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti at 29,945 points (0.1% delta).

Specification Differences

| Specification | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile |

|---|---|---|

| Chip | GA107 | GB206 |

| Architecture | Ampere | Blackwell 2.0 |

| Process Node | 8 nm (Samsung) | 5 nm (TSMC) |

| Transistors | 8,700 million | 21,900 million |

| Die Size | 200 mm² | 181 mm² |

| Transistor Density | 43.5M / mm² | 121.0M / mm² |

| Base Clock | 1065 MHz | 907 MHz |

| Boost Clock | 1343 MHz | 1425 MHz |

| Memory Size | 4 GB | 8 GB |

| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR7 |

| Memory Speed | 12 Gbps effective | 24 Gbps effective |

| Memory Bandwidth | 192.0 GB/s | 384.0 GB/s |

| Shading Units | 2048 | 4608 |

| TMUs | 64 | 144 |

| ROPs | 32 | 48 |

| RT Cores | 16 | 36 |

| Tensor Cores | 64 | 144 |

| Pixel Rate | 42.98 GPixel/s | 68.40 GPixel/s |

| Texture Rate | 85.95 GTexel/s | 205.2 GTexel/s |

| FP32 / FP16 | 5.501 TFLOPS | 13.13 TFLOPS |

| TDP | 45 W | 50 W |

| Bus Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | PCIe 5.0 x16 |

| Production Status | End-of-life | Active |

| Release Date | May 2021 | April 2025 |

Where Each One Wins

The RTX 5070 Mobile wins every head-to-head benchmark in the database. In Geekbench OpenCL, it leads by 59.1%, and in Geekbench Vulkan, it leads by 58.1%. These are not marginal advances; they represent a generational leap in raw compute throughput. The RTX 5070 Mobile's shading units more than double the older part's count, and its tensor core count nearly triples. For workloads that scale with shader count, such as modern DirectX 12 games or compute-heavy applications, the RTX 5070 Mobile is the clear choice. Its 8 GB memory capacity and 384.0 GB/s bandwidth also make it better suited for larger textures and datasets.

The RTX 3050 Mobile, by contrast, has no direct benchmark wins in the shared test pool. Its strengths are relative to its own weight class: it sits at the 78th percentile of all GPUs, with an average score of 33,170 that closely matches professional mobile parts like the NVIDIA T550 Mobile and T600 Mobile. It also has a higher base clock (1065 MHz) than the RTX 5070 Mobile (907 MHz), which can help in lightly threaded or clock-bound scenarios, though its lower boost clock limits sustained performance. The RTX 3050 Mobile's lower TDP (45 W versus 50 W) and smaller transistor count (8,700 million versus 21,900 million) may appeal to systems where power draw and die size matter more than raw throughput. However, the data does not show any test where the RTX 3050 Mobile outperforms the RTX 5070 Mobile.

The Verdict

Based strictly on the recorded benchmarks, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile is the superior product for any workload that benefits from compute throughput. It wins both head-to-head tests by over 58%, and its specification sheet reinforces this: more shading units, more ray tracing cores, more tensor cores, double the memory capacity, double the bandwidth, and significantly higher texture and pixel fill rates. The RTX 5070 Mobile also uses a newer architecture (Blackwell 2.0 versus Ampere) on a denser 5 nm process, which explains its ability to pack 21,900 million transistors into a smaller die.

The RTX 3050 Mobile is not without context. Its average benchmark score of 33,170 exceeds the RTX 5070 Mobile's average of 29,928, but that average includes a different set of tests, and the direct comparison shows the RTX 5070 Mobile far ahead. The RTX 3050 Mobile's percentile ranking (78th) is slightly higher than the RTX 5070 Mobile's (75th), but this reflects the composition of the test pool rather than actual performance parity. In the two tests where both GPUs appeared, the RTX 5070 Mobile was decisively faster.

For laptop buyers, the choice depends on availability and workload. The RTX 5070 Mobile is an active product from the GeForce 50-series, positioned near the performance of desktop GPUs like the RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 2080 Ti. The RTX 3050 Mobile is an end-of-life product from the GeForce 30-series, aligned with entry-level mobile GPUs like the T550 and T600. Anyone seeking maximum performance in OpenCL or Vulkan workloads should pick the RTX 5070 Mobile. Anyone constrained to the older 30-series platform, perhaps for legacy compatibility or lower power requirements, will find the RTX 3050 Mobile adequate for basic tasks but should not expect it to match the newer part in any measurable way. The data is unambiguous: the RTX 5070 Mobile wins on every shared benchmark, and the architecture differences confirm that this is a full generational step forward.