AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

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AMD Radeon R7 260X NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 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 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

3968 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 +721%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Feb 2022

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

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

38

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

4864

56

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

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GA103S

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

GA103-200-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

Unknown

160 mm²

Die Size

496 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

6.5

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