Radeon R7 260 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R7 260 vs GeForce RTX 3060
Radeon R7 260
2978
GeForce RTX 3060
17598
Radeon R7 260
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Bonaire
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2013
January 2021
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
1100 MHz
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1320 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,536 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
2,080 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
115 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
48.00
199.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1625 MHz
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
104 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.5
Vulkan
-
1.2
AppAcceleration
-
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-