NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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 980 Ti 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

Boost Clock1076MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

2624 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +1170%

6.06 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jun 2015

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

384bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

2816

64

TMUs

176

28

ROPs

96

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GM200

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

8 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

601 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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