NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM 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 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (85W vs 90W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +261%

7.127 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

VS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

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

1625 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

16

SM Count

-

2048

Shading Units

896

64

TMUs

56

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

17.60 GPixel/s

111.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

7.127 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.127 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

111.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

85W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Bonaire

GA107-140-A1

GPU Variant

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

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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