NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 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 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 185W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1852MHz

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

3648 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +2881%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

Jul 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

24

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

192

Shading Units

3840

64

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

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

GA106

G200-103-B3

GPU Variant

GA106-400-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

55 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

12 billion

470 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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