NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 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 950 Low Power 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1190MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 896GB)
552 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (75W vs 182W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
+241%
1.828 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216
0.536 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2016
Release Date
Sep 2008
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1026 MHz
Base Clock
-
1190 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1653 MHz
Memory Clock
999 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
896MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
448bit
105.8GB/s
Bandwidth
111.9GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
27
768
Shading Units
216
48
TMUs
72
32
ROPs
28
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
224 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
38.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.13 GPixel/s
57.12 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
41.47 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1.828 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
536.5 GFLOPS
57.12 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
67.07 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
182W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
GT200
GM206-251-A1
GPU Variant
G200-103-A2
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
576 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
1.3
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
