GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce GTX 260
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 970 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 896GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)
1472 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (148W vs 182W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+721%
3920
GeForce GTX 260
477
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
999 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
896MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
448bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
111.9GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
24
1664
Shading Units
192
104
TMUs
64
56
ROPs
28
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
224 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.13 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
36.86 GTexel/s
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
476.9 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
59.62 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
182W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GT200
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
G200-100-A2
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
576 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
1.3
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
