NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 260

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

AMD Radeon R7 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 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 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +363%

7.127 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

VS

Radeon R7 260

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1545 MHz

Base Clock

-

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

16

SM Count

-

2048

Shading Units

768

64

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

55.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

95W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Bonaire

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

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

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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