GeForce GT 430 and GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q - video card comparison

GeForce GT 430

GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GF108

GA107

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

October 2010

May 2021

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0 x 16

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Boost clock speed

-

1057 MHz

Core clock speed

700 MHz

-

CUDA cores per GPU

96

-

Floating-point performance

268.8 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

585 million

-

Pipelines / CUDA cores

96

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

49 Watt

35 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

98 °C

-

Texture fill rate

11.2 billion/sec

67.65

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

800 - 900 MHz (1600 - 1800 data rate)

11 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

25.6 - 28.8 GB/s

176.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

HDMIVGA (optional)Mini HDMIDual Link DVI

No outputs

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

+

8.6

OpenCL

1.1

3.0

OpenGL

4.2

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.6

Vulkan

N/A

1.3