GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs HD Graphics 400

Place in the ranking	1073	163
Place by popularity	not in top-100	11
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	69.10
Power efficiency	13.13	17.53
Architecture	Generation 8.0 (2014−2015)	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	Braswell GT1	GA106
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	1 April 2015 (9 years ago)	4 January 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$249

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 cores	96	2560
Core clock speed	320 MHz	1552 MHz
Boost clock speed	600 MHz	1777 MHz
Number of transistors	189 million	12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	6 Watt	130 Watt
Texture fill rate	7.200	142.2
Floating-point processing power	0.1152 TFLOPS	9.098 TFLOPS
ROPs	2	32
TMUs	12	80
Tensor Cores	no data	80
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	20

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).

Interface	Ring Bus	PCIe 4.0 x8
Length	no data	242 mm
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x 8-pin

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 type	DDR3L	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	System Shared	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	224.0 GB/s
Shared memory	+	-

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 Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI	-	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	5.1	6.6
OpenGL	4.3	4.6
OpenCL	3.0	3.0
Vulkan	+	1.3
CUDA	-	8.6

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	1.13	32.69
Recency	1 April 2015	4 January 2022
Chip lithography	14 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	6 Watt	130 Watt

HD Graphics 400 has 2066.7% lower power consumption.

RTX 3050 8 GB, on the other hand, has a 2792.9% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 6 years, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

The GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB is our recommended choice as it beats the HD Graphics 400 in performance tests.

Be aware that HD Graphics 400 is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB is a desktop one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.