NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 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 480 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

264 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 +150%

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

0.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

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GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

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

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

448bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

27

-

Compute Units

-

480

Shading Units

216

60

TMUs

72

48

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GT200

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

G200-103-A2

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

182W

600 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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