NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (1280GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

232 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition +103%

1.089 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

0.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

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GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 2008

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

837 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

320bit

Memory Bus

448bit

133.9GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

14

SM Count

27

-

Compute Units

-

448

Shading Units

216

56

TMUs

72

40

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

640 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

34.05 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

GT200

GT215-400-A2

GPU Variant

G200-103-A2

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

215W

TDP

182W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

1.3

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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