NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 12 years late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

3248 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +1357%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 OEM

0.874 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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GeForce GTX 460 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Oct 2010

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

7

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

336

112

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.100 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.40 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

873.6 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

72.80 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GF104

GA104

GPU Variant

GF104-325-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

195W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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