NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock902MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780 +771%

4.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 700

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

863 MHz

Base Clock

-

902 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

448bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

24

2304

Shading Units

192

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

28

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

-

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

182W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK110

GPU Name

GT200

GK110-300-A1

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.5

CUDA

1.3

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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