NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 X2 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 107.1GB/s)

Lower TDP (182W vs 215W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 X2 +79%

0.855 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

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GeForce GTX 470 X2

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

107.1GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

11

192

Shading Units

352

64

TMUs

44

28

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.38 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.75 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

855.4 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

182W

TDP

215W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

3x DVI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GF100

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

GF100-030-A3

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

529 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

2.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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