NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 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 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

4672 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +3296%

16.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Dec 2020

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1410 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

38

192

Shading Units

4864

64

TMUs

152

28

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

152

-

RT Cores

38

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

GA104-200-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

6.6

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