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

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 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 10 months late

Boost Clock1290MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 60.80GB/s)

5008 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q +4188%

13.21 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260M

0.308 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q

VS

GeForce GTX 260M

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Mar 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

950 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

60.80GB/s

Render Config

-

40

SM Count

14

5120

Shading Units

112

160

TMUs

56

80

ROPs

16

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

8.800 GPixel/s

206.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.80 GTexel/s

13.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.21 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

308.0 GFLOPS

206.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

80W

TDP

65W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

G92

GA104-770-A1

GPU Variant

N10E-GT

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

324 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

1.1

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q vs AMD Radeon RX 6700S

2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Mobile

3

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q vs AMD Radeon R5 M420

4

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q vs ATI Mobility FireGL V5700

5

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7630M

6

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q vs AMD Radeon Pro 5500M

7

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7470M

8

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile

9

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7670A

10

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

Related News

1

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

2

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

3

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

4

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

5

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

6

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

7

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

8

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

9

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

10

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!