NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 260M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1290MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

5024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (38W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q +4903%

13.21 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 260M

0.264 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q

VS

GeForce GTS 260M

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jun 2009

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

-

1290 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

40

SM Count

12

5120

Shading Units

96

160

TMUs

32

80

ROPs

8

160

Tensor Cores

-

40

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

103.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

206.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

13.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.21 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

206.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

80W

TDP

38W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GT215

GA104-770-A1

GPU Variant

N10E-GS

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.2

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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