Radeon R7 260X and GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R7 260X vs GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
Radeon R7 260X
3282
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
15854
Radeon R7 260X
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Bonaire
GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
October 2022
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
1000 MHz
1777 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,971 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
2,080 million
12,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
896
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
115 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
61.60
199.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
15 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
104 GB/s
240.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.7
Vulkan
-
1.3
AppAcceleration
-
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-