NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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 980 Ti 's Advantages
Released 7 years late
Boost Clock1076MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 896GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)
2624 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages
Lower TDP (182W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+1170%
6.06 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 260
0.477 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2015
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
-
1076 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
999 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
896MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
448bit
336.6GB/s
Bandwidth
111.9GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
24
2816
Shading Units
192
176
TMUs
64
96
ROPs
28
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
3 MB
L2 Cache
224 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
103.3 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.13 GPixel/s
189.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
36.86 GTexel/s
-
-
-
6.060 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
476.9 GFLOPS
189.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
59.62 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
182W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM200
GPU Name
GT200
GM200-310-A1
GPU Variant
G200-100-A2
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
8 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
601 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
