NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 460

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

AMD Radeon RX 460

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 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 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 48% (1777MHz vs 1200MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 460 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +323%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 460

2.15 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +261%

6261

Radeon RX 460

1730

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +566%

20

Radeon RX 460

3

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +250%

42

Radeon RX 460

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +272%

82

Radeon RX 460

22

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

Radeon RX 460

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

1090 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

896

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.20 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.20 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.150 TFLOPS

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.150 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

134.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Baffin

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Baffin PRO

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12 billion

Transistors

3 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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