AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Dec 2013
Jan 2021
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 30 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1500 MHz
Base Clock
-
817 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1282 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128bit
192bit
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
288.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
12
-
Shading Units
768
3840
TMUs
48
120
ROPs
16
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
256 KB
3 MB
SM Count
-
30
Tensor Cores
-
120
RT Cores
-
30

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
16.00 GPixel/s
61.54 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
48.00 GTexel/s
153.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
9.846 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
96.00 GFLOPS
153.8 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
9.846 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Bonaire
GA106
GPU Variant
Bonaire PRO
-
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
2.08 billion
12 billion
Die Size
160 mm²
276 mm²

Board Design

TDP
95W
60W
Suggested PSU
250 W
-
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.3
6.6
CUDA
-
8.6