NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 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 450W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1860MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1008GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

10560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +8285%

40 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1560 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1860 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6X

448bit

Memory Bus

384bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

1008GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

84

192

Shading Units

10752

64

TMUs

336

28

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

208.3 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

625.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

40.00 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.00 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

625.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

450W

450 W

Suggested PSU

850 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GA102

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

GA102-350-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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