NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

4672 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +3296%

16.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jun 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

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

608.3GB/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

225W

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

GA104

GPU Name

GT200

GA104-202-A1

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

576 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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