GeForce GTX 260 OEM vs RTX 3090

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking23not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation14.89no data
Power efficiency14.14no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameGA102GT200B
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 September 2020 (4 years ago)8 December 2009 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,499 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores10496192
Core clock speed1395 MHz518 MHz
Boost clock speed1695 MHzno data
Number of transistors28,300 million1,400 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)350 Watt182 Watt
Texture fill rate556.033.15
Floating-point processing power35.58 TFLOPS0.4147 TFLOPS
ROPs11228
TMUs32864
Tensor Cores328no data
Ray Tracing Cores82no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length336 mm267 mm
Width3-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-pin2x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6XGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount24 GB1792 MB
Memory bus width384 Bit448 Bit
Memory clock speed1219 MHz1008 MHz
Memory bandwidth936.2 GB/s112.9 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model6.54.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL2.01.1
Vulkan1.2N/A
CUDA8.51.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2020 8 December 2009
Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 1792 MB
Chip lithography 8 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 350 Watt 182 Watt

RTX 3090 has an age advantage of 10 years, a 1271.4% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 587.5% more advanced lithography process.

GTX 260 OEM, on the other hand, has 92.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3090 and GeForce GTX 260 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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