NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA A16 PCIe

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA A16 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 250W)

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (231.9GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe +809%

4.339 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

A16 PCIe

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 200

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

885 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

448bit

Memory Bus

128bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

231.9GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

10

192

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

40

28

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

40

-

RT Cores

10

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.24 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.339 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.339 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GA107

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

65 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

Unknown

576 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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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