NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1379MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 896GB)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (20W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 +122%

1.059 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Mar 2018

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1152 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1379 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR4

448bit

Memory Bus

64bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

16.80GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

3

192

Shading Units

384

64

TMUs

24

28

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.06 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.10 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

16.55 GFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1059 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.10 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

20W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GP108

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

GP108-310-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

65 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

6.1

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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