NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1852MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

3624 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +2552%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

0.536 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Sep 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

-

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

448bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

27

-

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

216

120

TMUs

72

48

ROPs

28

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GT200

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

G200-103-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

12 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

185W

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 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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