NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 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 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages

Released 16 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock2475MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

5696 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 +6011%

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Aug 2024

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1920 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2475 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

448bit

Memory Bus

192bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

480.0GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

46

192

Shading Units

5888

64

TMUs

184

28

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

36 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

158.4 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

455.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

29.15 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.15 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

455.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

AD104

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

AD104-2XX-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

5 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

294 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

8.9

4.0

Shader Model

6.8

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