RTX 3000 Ada Generation Mobile vs Radeon R9 260 OEM

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated97
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data24.82
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameBonaireno data
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date21 December 2013 (11 years ago)21 March 2023 (1 year ago)

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 cores8964608
Core clock speed1100 MHzno data
Number of transistors2,080 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)85 Watt115 Watt (35 - 115 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate61.60no data
Floating-point processing power1.971 TFLOPSno data
ROPs16no data
TMUs56no 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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16no data
Length183 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1625 MHz16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth104.0 GB/sno data
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 DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPortno data
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate
Shader Model6.3no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 December 2013 21 March 2023
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 85 Watt 115 Watt

R9 260 OEM has 35.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 3000 Ada Generation Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 260 OEM and RTX 3000 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 260 OEM is a desktop card while RTX 3000 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM
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