NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

AMD Radeon R7 260X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

3968 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (115W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +721%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +691%

11685

Radeon R7 260X

1476

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

VS

Radeon R7 260X

Graphics Card

Dec 2020

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

38

SM Count

-

4864

Shading Units

896

152

TMUs

56

80

ROPs

16

152

Tensor Cores

-

38

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

133.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

115W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Bonaire

GA104-200-A1

GPU Variant

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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