GeForce GTX 460 vs GeForce GTX 260
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 1 months late
144 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (160W vs 182W)
GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages
More VRAM (896GB vs 768GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 460
+90%
907
GeForce GTX 260
477
Graphics Card
Jul 2010
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
999 MHz
Memory
768MB
Memory Size
896MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
448bit
86.40GB/s
Bandwidth
111.9GB/s
Render Config
7
SM Count
24
336
Shading Units
192
56
TMUs
64
24
ROPs
28
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
384 KB
L2 Cache
224 KB
Theoretical Performance
9.450 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.13 GPixel/s
37.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
36.86 GTexel/s
907.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
476.9 GFLOPS
75.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
59.62 GFLOPS
Board Design
160W
TDP
182W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF104
GPU Name
GT200
GF104-300-KB-A1
GPU Variant
G200-100-A2
Fermi
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
332 mm²
Die Size
576 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
1.3
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
