NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA A40 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 300W)

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 896GB)

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

10560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe +7744%

37.42 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

A40 PCIe

Graphics Card

Jun 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

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

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 Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GA102

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

65 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

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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