NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti's Advantages

Released 11 years late

Boost Clock 1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 112.9GB/s)

4672 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +3803%

16.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

0.415 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

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GeForce GTX 260 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2020

Release Date

Dec 2009

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410MHz

Base Clock

-

1665MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750MHz

Memory Clock

1008MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1792MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

448.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

112.9 GB/s

Render Config

38

SM Count

24

-

Compute Units

-

4864

Shading Units

192

152

TMUs

64

80

ROPs

28

152

Tensor Cores

-

38

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

4MB

L2 Cache

224KB

Theoretical Performance

133.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.50 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.15 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

414.7 GFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.84 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GT200B

GA104-200-A1

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

17,400 million

Transistors

1,400 million

392mm²

Die Size

470mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

182W

550W

Suggested PSU

450W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-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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