GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 and GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216
GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
Architecture
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GT200
GN20-E3 GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
September 2008
January 2021
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
-
Boost clock speed
-
1702 MHz
Core clock speed
576 MHz
817 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
3840
Power consumption (TDP)
182 Watt
115 Watt (60 - 115 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate
41.47
171.0
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
896 MB
6 GB
Memory bus width
448 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1998 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
111.9 GB/s
336.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
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