NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1680MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (160W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 +1252%

6.451 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

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GeForce RTX 2060

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jan 2019

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1365 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1680 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

448bit

Memory Bus

192bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

30

192

Shading Units

1920

64

TMUs

120

28

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

30

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.451 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

160W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

TU106

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

TU106-200A-KA-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

12 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

7.5

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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