NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 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 560 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

120 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 560 +103%

1.089 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

0.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Sep 2008

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

7

SM Count

27

336

Shading Units

216

56

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

28

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.34 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

45.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

90.72 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

182W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

GT200

GF114-325-A1

GPU Variant

G200-103-A2

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

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

2.1

CUDA

1.3

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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