NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock902MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780 6 GB +771%

4.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Sep 2013

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

863 MHz

-

Boost Clock

902 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

384bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

288.4GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

2304

64

TMUs

192

28

ROPs

48

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

224 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

43.30 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

173.2 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.156 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

173.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GK110B

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

GK110-301-B1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

7.08 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

561 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

1.3

CUDA

3.5

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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