NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 +125%

1.078 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jul 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

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

448bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

24

-

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

192

64

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

33.73 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1078 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GT200B

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

GPU Variant

G200-103-B3

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

182W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 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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