GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GT200
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2008
January 2021
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
576 MHz
1320 MHz
Floating-point performance
536.5 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
1,400 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
216
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
182 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
41.47
199.0
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
896 MB
12 GB
Memory bus width
448 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1998 MHz
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
111.9 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
1.3
8.6
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2