NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 12GB VRAM RTX A5000 12Q 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 230W)

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

8000 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 12Q +5721%

27.77 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

RTX A5000 12Q

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 200

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1170 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

448bit

Memory Bus

384bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

64

192

Shading Units

8192

64

TMUs

256

28

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

256

-

RT Cores

64

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

162.7 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

433.9 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

27.77 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

27.77 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

433.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

230W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GA102

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

65 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

628 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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