AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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AMD Radeon R7 260X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 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 185W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1852MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

2944 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +621%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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

1627 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

896

Shading Units

3840

56

TMUs

120

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

185W

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 Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GA106

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

GA106-400-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

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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