NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1733MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

2368 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 +1760%

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

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GeForce GTX 1080

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1607 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5X

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

20

192

Shading Units

2560

64

TMUs

160

28

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

138.6 GFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.873 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

180W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GP104

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

GP104-400-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

16 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

314 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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