NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM 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 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (85W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +546%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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Radeon R9 260 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

896

112

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

85W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Bonaire

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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