NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs AMD Radeon R7 260

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X AMD Radeon R7 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +954%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

VS

Radeon R7 260

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

608.3GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

38

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

4864

Shading Units

768

152

TMUs

48

80

ROPs

16

152

Tensor Cores

-

38

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

133.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Bonaire

GA104-202-A1

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

95W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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