NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 OEM 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 12 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1792GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 112.9GB/s)
4672 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+3813%
16.2 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 260 OEM
0.414 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
Dec 2009
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
1008 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1792MB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
448bit
608.3GB/s
Bandwidth
112.9GB/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
14.50 GPixel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.15 GTexel/s
16.20 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
16.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
414.7 GFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
51.84 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
150W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
GT200
GA104-202-A1
GPU Variant
G200-101-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
