NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

3392 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +2570%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

448bit

Memory Bus

192bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

28

192

Shading Units

3584

64

TMUs

112

28

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

170W

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 Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

GA104

G200-103-B3

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

55 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

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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