NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 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 10 months late

Boost Clock1425MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 60.80GB/s)

3728 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 65W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +3451%

10.94 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260M

0.308 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 260M

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Mar 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

950 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

60.80GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

14

3840

Shading Units

112

120

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

16

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

8.800 GPixel/s

171.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.80 GTexel/s

10.94 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.94 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

308.0 GFLOPS

171.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

60-115W

TDP

65W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

G92

-

GPU Variant

N10E-GT

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

324 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

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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