NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 225W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

4672 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +3296%

16.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

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GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Oct 2022

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

1188 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6X

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/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

225W

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

GT200

GPU Name

GA104

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

GA104-202-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

65 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

576 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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