NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 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 290W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 896GB)

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

5952 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 +4459%

21.75 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

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GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102

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

1575 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1770 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

48

192

Shading Units

6144

64

TMUs

192

28

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

169.9 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

339.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

21.75 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

21.75 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

339.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

290W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

GA102

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

GA102-150-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

65 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

576 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

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