NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 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 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1188MHz

552 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W 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 +240%

1.825 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

0.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

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GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Sep 2008

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

-

1188 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

-

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

216

48

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GT200

GM206-250-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

Board Design

90W

TDP

182W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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

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