GeForce GT 730 and GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB - video card comparison

GeForce GT 730

GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GF108

GA107

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

June 2014

July 2022

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

990 MHz

Core clock speed

700 MHz

Floating-point performance

268.8 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

585 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

49 Watt

35 Watt

Texture fill rate

11.2 GT/s

63.36

Memory type

DDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

96 Bit

Memory clock speed

1800 MHz

12 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

25.6 GB/s

144.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

Portable Device Dependent

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

2.1

8.6

OpenCL

1.1

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3