AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare AMD Radeon R7 260X 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

779 points

3468 points

345% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

19 FPS

82 FPS

64 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

41 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

59 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

31 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1500 points

6224 points

314% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

1552 MHz

41% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

1777 MHz

77% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

8 GiB

300% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

104 GB/s

224 GB/s

115% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

115 W

13% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

17.6 Gigapixels/s

56.86 Gigapixels/s

223% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

61.6 Gigatexels/s

142.2 Gigatexels/s

130% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.97 TFLOPS

9.10 TFLOPS

361% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

896

2560

185% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

42% many more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

283rd of 586

139th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.6

Radeon R7 260X vs GeForce RTX 3050 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 GPU is faster than the Radeon R7 260X in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 3050 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3050 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon R7 260X has a slightly lower TDP at 115 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3050 at 130 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3050 is faster than the Radeon R7 260X.