AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 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 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +954%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Dec 2020

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1410 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

38

768

Shading Units

4864

48

TMUs

152

16

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

152

-

RT Cores

38

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GA104

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

GA104-200-A1

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

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

6.6

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