UHD Graphics 630 Mobile vs GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking164not rated
Place by popularity11not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation69.05no data
Power efficiency17.41no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Generation 9.5 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameGA106Coffee Lake GT2
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date4 January 2022 (2 years ago)3 April 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$249 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2560192
Core clock speed1552 MHz350 MHz
Boost clock speed1777 MHz1000 MHz
Number of transistors12,000 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology8 nm14 nm+++
Power consumption (TDP)130 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate142.224.00
Floating-point processing power9.098 TFLOPS0.384 TFLOPS
ROPs323
TMUs8024
Tensor Cores80no data
Ray Tracing Cores20no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8Ring Bus
Length242 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6System Shared
Maximum RAM amount8 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1750 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/sno data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4aPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.66.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2022 3 April 2018
Chip lithography 8 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 130 Watt 15 Watt

RTX 3050 8 GB has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

UHD Graphics 630 Mobile, on the other hand, has 766.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and UHD Graphics 630 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
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