NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1725MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

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

4992 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (85W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +930%

20.31 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

-

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

5888

Shading Units

896

184

TMUs

56

96

ROPs

16

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Bonaire

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

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

220W

TDP

85W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-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

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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