NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 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 105.8GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1188MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 896GB)

576 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 +282%

1.825 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Aug 2015

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1024 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

128bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

768

64

TMUs

48

28

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

90W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GM206

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

GM206-250-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

228 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

5.2

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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