NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 240 OEM 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 70.40GB/s)

80 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 +31%

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

0.363 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jul 2009

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

70.40GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

14

192

Shading Units

112

64

TMUs

56

28

ROPs

16

-

224 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.80 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

362.9 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

182W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

G92B

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

G92-240-B1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

1.1

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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