GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs Radeon R7 260X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages
Lower TDP (115W vs 130W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
+361%
9098
Radeon R7 260X
1971
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
1328
Radeon R7 260X
+11%
1476
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Oct 2013
GeForce 30
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1552 MHz
Base Clock
-
1777 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1625 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
104.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
14
20
SM Count
-
2560
Shading Units
896
80
TMUs
56
32
ROPs
16
80
Tensor Cores
-
20
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
56.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.60 GPixel/s
142.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
61.60 GTexel/s
9.098 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
9.098 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.971 TFLOPS
142.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
130W
TDP
115W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA106
GPU Name
Bonaire
GA106-150-KA-A1
GPU Variant
Bonaire XTX
(215-0839097)
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
12 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
276 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
8.6
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
6.3
