NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 896GB)

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

5952 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 +4459%

21.75 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jul 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1575 MHz

Base Clock

-

1770 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

-

48

SM Count

24

6144

Shading Units

192

TMUs

64

96

ROPs

28

192

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

169.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

339.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

21.75 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

21.75 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

339.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

182W

600 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

GA102

GPU Name

GT200B

GA102-150-A1

GPU Variant

G200-103-B3

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

470 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

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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