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GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

The GeForce RTX 3050 features a core clock speed of 1552 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 8 nm design. It is made up of 2560 SPUs, 80 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare that to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which comes with core speeds of 1090 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB 75 Watts
GeForce RTX 3050 130 Watts
Difference: 55 Watts (73%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 3050 should in theory be quite a bit superior to the Radeon RX 460 2GB in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050 229376 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB 112000 MB/sec
Difference: 117376 (105%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 will be a lot (about 103%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 460 2GB. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050 124160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB 61040 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 63120 (103%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3050 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050 49664 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB 17440 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 32224 (185%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce RTX 3050 Radeon RX 460 2GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 2022 August 2016
Code Name Ampere GA106-150-KA-A1 Polaris 11
Memory 8192 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 1552 MHz 1090 MHz
Memory Speed 1750 GB/s 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 130 watts 75 watts
Bandwidth 229376 MB/sec 112000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 124160 Mtexels/sec 61040 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 49664 Mpixels/sec 17440 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2560 896
Texture Mapping Units 80 56
Render Output Units 32 16
Bus Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 8 nm 14 nm
Transistors 12000 million 3000 million
Bus PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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