AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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AMD Radeon R7 260 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +729%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Oct 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

3584

48

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GA104

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

GA104

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

95W

TDP

195W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.3

Shader Model

6.7

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