NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB 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 84.10GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1518MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 896GB)

576 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB +388%

2.332 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

May 2018

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1392 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1518 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1752 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

96bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

84.10GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

6

192

Shading Units

768

64

TMUs

48

28

ROPs

24

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

36.43 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.86 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

36.43 GFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.332 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

72.86 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GP107

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

GP107-301-K1-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

65 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

3.3 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

132 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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