GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile vs Radeon HD 7430M

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated237
Place by popularitynot in top-10044
Power efficiencyno data21.64
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameSeymourGA107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2012 (12 years ago)11 May 2021 (3 years ago)

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 cores1602048
Core clock speed600 MHz712 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1057 MHz
Number of transistors370 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)7 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate4.80067.65
Floating-point processing power0.192 TFLOPS4.329 TFLOPS
ROPs440
TMUs864
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16

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 typeDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s192.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.6
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2012 11 May 2021
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 7 Watt 75 Watt

HD 7430M has 971.4% lower power consumption.

RTX 3050 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 400% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7430M and GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon HD 7430M
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