NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 768MB VRAM GeForce 8800 Ultra to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (896GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 103.7GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra 's Advantages

Lower TDP (171W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 +23%

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

0.387 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1080 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

448bit

Memory Bus

384bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

103.7GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

16

192

Shading Units

128

64

TMUs

32

28

ROPs

24

-

224 KB

L2 Cache

96 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.69 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.17 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

387.1 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

182W

TDP

171W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

G80

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

G80-450-A3

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

90 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.681 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

484 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1 (1.0)

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

1.0

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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