NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 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 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)

1712 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +685%

7.127 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460

0.907 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 460

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jul 2010

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

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

86.40GB/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

9.450 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.80 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

907.2 GFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.60 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

-

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GF104

GA107-140-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

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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