NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 970 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1472 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (148W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +721%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

24

1664

Shading Units

192

104

TMUs

64

56

ROPs

28

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

182W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GT200

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

398 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

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