GeForce RTX 4090 vs GeForce GTX 260
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock2520MHz
More VRAM (24GB vs 896GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 111.9GB/s)
16192 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages
Lower TDP (182W vs 450W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4090
+17212%
82580
GeForce GTX 260
477
Graphics Card
Sep 2022
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2235 MHz
Base Clock
-
2520 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1313 MHz
Memory Clock
999 MHz
Memory
24GB
Memory Size
896MB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
448bit
1.01TB/s
Bandwidth
111.9GB/s
Render Config
128
SM Count
24
16384
Shading Units
192
512
TMUs
64
176
ROPs
28
512
Tensor Cores
-
128
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
72 MB
L2 Cache
224 KB
Theoretical Performance
443.5 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.13 GPixel/s
1290 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
36.86 GTexel/s
82.58 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
82.58 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
476.9 GFLOPS
1290 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
59.62 GFLOPS
Board Design
450W
TDP
182W
850 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
AD102
GPU Name
GT200
AD102-300-A1
GPU Variant
G200-100-A2
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
65 nm
76.3 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
609 mm²
Die Size
576 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.9
CUDA
1.3
6.8
Shader Model
4.0
