NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1032MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.2GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

744 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (140W vs 171W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

0.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 +269%

1.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

VS

GeForce GTX 660

Graphics Card

Nov 2008

Release Date

Sep 2012

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

980 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1032 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

192bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

144.2GB/s

Render Config

27

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

216

Shading Units

960

72

TMUs

80

28

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

224 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.64 GPixel/s

41.47 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.56 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

536.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.981 TFLOPS

67.07 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

82.56 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

GK106

G200-103-B2

GPU Variant

GK106-400-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

221 mm²

Board Design

171W

TDP

140W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

1.3

CUDA

3.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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