GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs GeForce GT 430 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1740MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)
1952 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 430 PCI 's Advantages
Lower TDP (49W vs 90W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+2549%
7127
GeForce GT 430 PCI
269
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Oct 2010
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1545 MHz
Base Clock
-
1740 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
192.0GB/s
Bandwidth
9.600GB/s
Render Config
16
SM Count
2
2048
Shading Units
96
64
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
4
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
55.68 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.800 GPixel/s
111.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.20 GTexel/s
7.127 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
7.127 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
268.8 GFLOPS
111.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
22.40 GFLOPS
Board Design
90W
TDP
49W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
GF108
GA107-140-A1
GPU Variant
GF108-300-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Fermi
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
40 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
2.1
6.7
Shader Model
5.1
