NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +724%

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

192bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

9

192

Shading Units

1152

64

TMUs

72

28

ROPs

48

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

GP106

G200-103-B3

GPU Variant

GP106-300-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

16 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

200 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

6.1

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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