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

VS

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (85W vs 90W)

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 260 OEM

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +261%

7.127 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Jan 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1545 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

896

Shading Units

2048

56

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

55.68 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

111.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.127 TFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.127 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

111.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

85W

TDP

90W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GA107

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

GPU Variant

GA107-140-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.3

Shader Model

6.7

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