NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

Boost Clock1201MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

808 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM +358%

2.46 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

0.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Nov 2008

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1176 MHz

Base Clock

-

1201 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

448bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

27

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

216

64

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GT200B

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

171W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

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

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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