NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs AMD Radeon R7 450

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 450 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R7 450

Price

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$ 366.59

$ 149.99

$ 216.60 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6815 points

2194% significantly better overall score

297 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

167 FPS

159 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

80 FPS

76 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

118 FPS

112 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

6 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

63 FPS

61 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

2 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

120183 points

1022% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10702 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

95490 points

876% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

9779 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112303 points

1016% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

10058 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

115945 points

1267% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

8478 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1410 MHz

34% slightly higher core clock speed

1050 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

300% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

522% significantly higher memory bandwidth

72 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

200 W

65 W

207% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

133.2 Gigapixels/s

800% significantly higher pixel rate

14.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

253.1 Gigatexels/s

755% significantly higher texture rate

29.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4864

850% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

152

374% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

400% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

71st of 586

381st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 December

2016 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.3

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs Radeon R7 450 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics card is better than the Radeon R7 450 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon R7 450 has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti at 200 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti over the Radeon R7 450.