NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 7800 GTX 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (896GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (108W vs 182W)

Score

GeForce GTX 260

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GeForce 7800 GTX 512

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Nov 2005

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 7 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

-

64

TMUs

24

28

ROPs

16

-

224 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

182W

TDP

108W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

G70

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

GF-7800-GTX-512-A2

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

110 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.302 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

333 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3

OpenGL

2.1

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

3.0

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