GeForce GTX 260 OEM and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GT200B

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

December 2009

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

518 MHz

1320 MHz

Floating-point performance

414.7 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

182 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

33.15

199.0

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1792 MB

12 GB

Memory bus width

448 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

2016 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

112.9 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