NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA TITAN RTX

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 24GB VRAM TITAN RTX 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 280W)

NVIDIA TITAN RTX 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

4416 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

TITAN RTX +3319%

16.31 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

TITAN RTX

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Dec 2018

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1350 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

448bit

Memory Bus

384bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

672.0GB/s

Render Config

24

SM Count

72

-

Compute Units

-

192

Shading Units

4608

64

TMUs

288

28

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

576

-

RT Cores

72

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

169.9 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

509.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

32.62 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.31 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

509.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

TU102

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

TU102-400-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

12 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

18.6 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

754 mm²

Board Design

182W

TDP

280W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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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