NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB AMD 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

NVIDIA 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

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (115W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +361%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +323%

6247

Radeon R7 260X

1476

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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Radeon R7 260X

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

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

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

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

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 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

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