NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 12 years late

Boost Clock1725MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

5672 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +3689%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

0.536 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Sep 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

-

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

46

SM Count

27

5888

Shading Units

216

184

TMUs

72

96

ROPs

28

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

182W

550 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

GA104

GPU Name

GT200

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

G200-103-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

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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