GeForce GTX 780 vs GeForce GTX 260 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 and 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock902MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1792GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 112.9GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

GeForce GTX 260 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780 +901%

4156

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

415

GeForce GTX 780

VS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Dec 2009

GeForce 700

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

863 MHz

Base Clock

-

902 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1792MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

448bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

112.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

24

2304

Shading Units

192

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

28

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.50 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.15 GTexel/s

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

414.7 GFLOPS

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.84 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

182W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK110

GPU Name

GT200B

GK110-300-A1

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.5

CUDA

1.3

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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