NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

3392 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +2570%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

448bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

24

3584

Shading Units

192

112

TMUs

64

ROPs

28

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

182W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GT200

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.3

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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