AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

VS

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (85W vs 225W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

3968 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 260 OEM

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +721%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

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GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

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

1410 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

38

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

-

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

85W

TDP

225W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-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 XT (215-0839039)

GPU Variant

GA104-202-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

6.7

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