NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

4672 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 +3296%

16.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Feb 2022

Release Date

Jul 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

38

SM Count

24

4864

Shading Units

192

152

TMUs

64

80

ROPs

28

152

Tensor Cores

-

38

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

133.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

182W

550 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

GA103S

GPU Name

GT200B

GA103-200-A1

GPU Variant

G200-103-B3

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.4 billion

496 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

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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