NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 185W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1852MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

3624 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

0.536 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +2552%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

Sep 2008

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1627 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

448bit

Memory Bus

192bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

27

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

216

Shading Units

3840

72

TMUs

120

28

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

41.47 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

536.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

67.07 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GA106

G200-103-A2

GPU Variant

GA106-400-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

65 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

12 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

182W

TDP

185W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

8.6

4.0

Shader Model

6.7

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