NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA A30 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

3392 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe +2063%

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

A30 PCIe

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 200

Generation

Tesla Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

930 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

HBM2e

448bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

56

192

Shading Units

3584

64

TMUs

224

28

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

165W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GA100

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

7 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

N/A

3.3

OpenGL

N/A

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

8.0

4.0

Shader Model

N/A

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