NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 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 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)

2224 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +903%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460

0.907 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 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

1552 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

86.40GB/s

Render Config

-

20

SM Count

7

2560

Shading Units

336

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

24

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.450 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.80 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

907.2 GFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

160W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GF104

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GF104-300-KB-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

276 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

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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