NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 OEM and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1792GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 112.9GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

0.415 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 +1100%

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Dec 2009

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1792MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.9GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

2048

64

TMUs

128

28

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

33.15 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

-

414.7 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

51.84 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

165W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

GM204

G200-103-B2

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

5.2

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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