NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1620MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070 +1464%

7.465 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

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GeForce RTX 2070

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Oct 2018

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1410 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1620 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

36

192

Shading Units

2304

64

TMUs

144

28

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

288

-

RT Cores

36

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.7 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

233.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

14.93 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.465 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

233.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

175W

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

TU106-400A-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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