Radeon R7 M260 and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 - video card comparison
Radeon R7 M260
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Opal Pro / Mars
GA104
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2014
September 2021
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x8
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
980 MHz
1777 MHz
Compute units
6
-
Core clock speed
715 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
721.9 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
1,550 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
-
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
23.52
199.0
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
15 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
Mantle
+
-
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.3
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.6
Vulkan
-
1.3
AppAcceleration
-
-
DualGraphics
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
PowerTune
+
-
Switchable graphics
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
-