NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 260M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1425MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

3744 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (38W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +4043%

10.94 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 260M

0.264 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

VS

GeForce GTS 260M

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jun 2009

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

1425 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

12

3840

Shading Units

96

120

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

8

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

68.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

171.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

10.94 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.94 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

171.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

60-115W

TDP

38W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GT215

-

GPU Variant

N10E-GS

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.2

6.7

Shader Model

4.1

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