GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs HD Graphics 400 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated197
Place by popularitynot in top-10031
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data75.40
Power efficiencyno data28.49
ArchitectureGeneration 8.0 (2014−2015)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameBraswell GT1GA107
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 April 2015 (9 years ago)2 February 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$179

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 cores962304
Core clock speed320 MHz1042 MHz
Boost clock speed600 MHz1470 MHz
Number of transistorsno data8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)6 Watt70 Watt
Texture fill rate7.200105.8
Floating-point processing power0.1152 TFLOPS6.774 TFLOPS
ROPs232
TMUs1272
Tensor Coresno data72
Ray Tracing Coresno data18

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).

InterfaceRing BusPCIe 4.0 x8
Lengthno data242 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared6 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared96 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data168.0 GB/s

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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.34.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan+1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 2015 2 February 2024
Chip lithography 14 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 6 Watt 70 Watt

HD Graphics 400 Mobile has 1066.7% lower power consumption.

RTX 3050 6 GB, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics 400 Mobile and GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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Intel HD Graphics 400 Mobile
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