GeForce GTX 460 vs GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages
Lower TDP (160W vs 170W)
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 768GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)
3248 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 460
907
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+1304%
12740
Graphics Card
Jul 2010
Release Date
Oct 2022
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1320 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
Memory
768MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
86.40GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
7
SM Count
28
336
Shading Units
3584
56
TMUs
112
24
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
28
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
384 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
9.450 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
37.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
907.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
75.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
160W
TDP
170W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
-
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
GF104
GPU Name
GA106
GF104-300-KB-A1
GPU Variant
GA106-302-A1
Fermi
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
40 nm
Process Size
8 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
12 billion
332 mm²
Die Size
276 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
2.1
CUDA
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
