NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA RTX A1000

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA RTX A1000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 8GB VRAM RTX A1000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A1000 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1462MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

RTX A1000 +1312%

6.737 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

RTX A1000

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Apr 2024

GeForce 200

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

727 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1462 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

448bit

Memory Bus

128bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

18

192

Shading Units

2304

64

TMUs

72

28

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

46.78 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

105.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

6.737 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.737 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GA107

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

65 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

200 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

8.6

4.0

Shader Model

6.7

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