NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 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 3070 Ti 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

5952 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +4459%

21.75 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

May 2021

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1575 MHz

Base Clock

-

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

608.3GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

48

SM Count

24

-

Compute Units

-

6144

Shading Units

192

TMUs

64

96

ROPs

28

192

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

169.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

339.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

21.75 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

21.75 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

339.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GT200

GA104-400-A1

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

182W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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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