NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 730 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

2464 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 's Advantages

Lower TDP (49W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +3282%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 730

0.269 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +1904%

6254

GeForce GT 730

312

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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GeForce GT 730

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jun 2014

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

96

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

4

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.20 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

268.8 GFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

22.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GF108

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GF108-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

49W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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