NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1683MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X +1105%

6.463 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

0.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Sep 2008

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

15

SM Count

27

1920

Shading Units

216

120

TMUs

72

64

ROPs

28

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

182W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GT200

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

G200-103-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

65 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

314 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

6.1

CUDA

1.3

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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