NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs Intel Arc A310

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 4GB VRAM Arc A310 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A310 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1750MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (124.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (30W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Arc A310 +463%

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

Arc A310

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Oct 2022

GeForce 200

Generation

Alchemist

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1750 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1750 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1937 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

448bit

Memory Bus

64bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

124.0GB/s

Render Config

24

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

192

Shading Units

768

64

TMUs

32

28

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

96

-

RT Cores

6

-

L1 Cache

-

224 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.00 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

56.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.376 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

672.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

DG2-128

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

ACM-G11

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

6 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

157 mm²

Board Design

182W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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