GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs GeForce GTX 460 v2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1740MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 96.19GB/s)
1712 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (90W vs 160W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+581%
7127
GeForce GTX 460 v2
1046
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Sep 2011
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1545 MHz
Base Clock
-
1740 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1002 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
192.0GB/s
Bandwidth
96.19GB/s
Render Config
16
SM Count
7
2048
Shading Units
336
64
TMUs
56
32
ROPs
24
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
384 KB
Theoretical Performance
55.68 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.91 GPixel/s
111.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
43.62 GTexel/s
7.127 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
7.127 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1046 GFLOPS
111.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
87.19 GFLOPS
Board Design
90W
TDP
160W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
GF114
GA107-140-A1
GPU Variant
GF114-400-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
40 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
332 mm²
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
