NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

2224 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +865%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 X2

0.942 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 460 X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Mar 2011

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

7

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

336

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

32

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.814 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.26 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

941.5 GFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

78.46 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GF104

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GF104-300-KB-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

160W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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