NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 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 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

3368 additional rendering cores

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

Lower TDP (171W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +2276%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

0.536 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Nov 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

8GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

448bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

27

3584

Shading Units

216

112

TMUs

72

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

41.47 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

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

GA104

GPU Name

GT200B

GA104

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

392 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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