NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 OEM 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 9 years late
Boost Clock1683MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1792GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 112.9GB/s)
1728 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+1461%
6.463 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 260 OEM
0.414 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2018
Release Date
Dec 2009
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
1008 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1792MB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
448bit
256.3GB/s
Bandwidth
112.9GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
15
SM Count
24
1920
Shading Units
192
120
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
28
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
224 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
107.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
14.50 GPixel/s
202.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.15 GTexel/s
101.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.463 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
414.7 GFLOPS
202.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
51.84 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
150W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
GT200
GP104-200-A1
GPU Variant
G200-101-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
