NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 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 2 months late

Boost Clock1852MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 896GB)

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

3624 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (171W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +2552%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

0.536 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Nov 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

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

Board Design

185W

TDP

171W

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

GA106

GPU Name

GT200B

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

12 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

470 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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