NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM vs AMD Radeon R7 260

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM AMD Radeon R7 260

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

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1755MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +426%

8.087 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

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

1515 MHz

Base Clock

-

1755 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

2304

Shading Units

768

72

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

126.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

8.087 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.087 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

126.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Bonaire

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

95W

300 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 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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