NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 Ti and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1860MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1008GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

10560 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +8285%

40 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

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GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1560 MHz

Base Clock

-

1860 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

448bit

1008GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

24

-

Compute Units

-

10752

Shading Units

192

336

TMUs

64

112

ROPs

28

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

6 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

208.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

625.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

40.00 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

40.00 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

625.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GT200

GA102-350-A1

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

450W

TDP

182W

850 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.3

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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