GeForce GT 720 OEM and GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile - video card comparison

GeForce GT 720 OEM

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

Architecture

Kepler (2012−2018)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GK107

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

October 2017

January 2022

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

993 MHz

1552 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

1,270 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

130 Watt

Texture fill rate

15.89

102.0

Memory type

DDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

128 Bit Bit

Memory clock speed

1782 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory bandwidth

28.51 GB/s

224.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

3.0

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.5

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.2