NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 +405%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jan 2015

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

128bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

1024

64

TMUs

64

28

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 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

GM206-300-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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