AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2013
Oct 2022
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1625 MHz
1875 MHz
Base Clock
-
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1777 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128bit
128bit
Bandwidth
104.0GB/s
240.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
14
-
Shading Units
896
3584
TMUs
56
112
ROPs
16
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
256 KB
3 MB
SM Count
-
28
Tensor Cores
-
112
RT Cores
-
28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
17.60 GPixel/s
85.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
61.60 GTexel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.971 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.2 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.74 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Bonaire
GA106
GPU Variant
Bonaire XTX(215-0839097)
GA106-302-A1
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
115W
170W
Suggested PSU
300 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 12-pin
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