NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1470MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)

1968 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +646%

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460

0.907 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 460

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Jul 2010

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

-

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

192bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

86.40GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

7

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

336

72

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

24

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.450 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.80 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

907.2 GFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.60 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GF104

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

GF104-300-KB-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

160W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

2.1

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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