AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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AMD Radeon R7 260X NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (115W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +546%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R7 260X

1476

GeForce RTX 3060 +493%

8767

Radeon R7 260X

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GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jan 2021

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

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

3584

56

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GA106

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

12 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

170W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x 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

6.6

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