NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 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 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

10304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090 +7359%

35.58 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

VS

GeForce RTX 3090

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1395 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1219 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6X

448bit

Memory Bus

384bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

936.2GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

82

192

Shading Units

10496

64

TMUs

328

28

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

328

-

RT Cores

82

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

189.8 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

556.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

35.58 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.58 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

350W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 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

GA102

G200-103-B3

GPU Variant

GA102-300-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

55 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

628 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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs AMD FirePro S9300 X2

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs ATI Radeon HD 4670 X2

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs ATI Radeon HD 4250

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs ATI Radeon HD 5630

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs Intel Arc A580

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs ATI Radeon X550 XT

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA PG506 232

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon HD 8760 OEM

Related News

1

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

2

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

3

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

4

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

5

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

6

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

7

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

8

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

9

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

10

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage