GeForce 720M and GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB - video card comparison
GeForce 720M
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
Architecture
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GF117
GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2013
January 2022
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
625 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
240.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
12,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
33 Watt
130 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.00
142.2
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
224.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
2.1
8.6
OpenCL
1.1
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
Vulkan
N/A
1.3