NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 NVIDIA A40 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 and 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 300W)

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

10560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe +7744%

37.42 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

VS

A40 PCIe

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Oct 2020

GeForce 200

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1305 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

448bit

Memory Bus

384bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

695.8GB/s

Render Config

24

SM Count

84

-

Compute Units

-

192

Shading Units

10752

64

TMUs

336

28

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

194.9 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

584.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

37.42 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.42 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

584.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

GA102

G200-103-B3

GPU Variant

-

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

55 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

182W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

8.6

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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