NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

10048 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +7048%

34.1 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

May 2021

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

-

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

448bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

80

SM Count

24

10240

Shading Units

192

320

TMUs

64

112

ROPs

28

320

Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

6 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

186.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

532.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

34.10 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

34.10 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

532.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

182W

750 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

GT200

GA102-225-A1

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

628 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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