NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 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 96.19GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

144 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (160W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2 +119%

1.046 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

GeForce GTX 460 v2

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Sep 2011

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

192bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

96.19GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

7

192

Shading Units

336

64

TMUs

56

28

ROPs

24

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.91 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.62 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1046 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

87.19 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

160W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GF114

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

2.1

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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