NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 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 450W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

16192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090 +17212%

82.58 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

GeForce RTX 4090

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Sep 2022

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6X

448bit

Memory Bus

384bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

1.01TB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

128

192

Shading Units

16384

64

TMUs

512

28

ROPs

176

-

Tensor Cores

512

-

RT Cores

128

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

72 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

443.5 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1290 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

82.58 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

82.58 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1290 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

450W

450 W

Suggested PSU

850 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

AD102

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

AD102-300-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

5 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

609 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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