NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 260
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2022
Dec 2013
Generation
GeForce 30
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
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Boost Clock
1777 MHz
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Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
128bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
96.00GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
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Shading Units
3584
768
TMUs
112
48
ROPs
48
16
Tensor Cores
112
—
RT Cores
28
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
3 MB
256 KB
Compute Units
—
12
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
16.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
48.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
1.536 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
96.00 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
Bonaire
GPU Variant
GA106-302-A1
Bonaire PRO
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
12 billion
2.08 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
160 mm²
Board Design
TDP
170W
95W
Suggested PSU
450 W
250 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
8.6
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Shader Model
6.6
6.3
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.