NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 OEM 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 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1201MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1792GB)

832 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.9GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM +492%

2.46 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

0.415 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Dec 2009

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

1008 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1792MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

448bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

112.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

24

1024

Shading Units

192

64

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

28

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.50 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.15 GTexel/s

-

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

414.7 GFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.84 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

182W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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

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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