NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 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 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1076MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

2624 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +1170%

6.06 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Jul 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

-

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

192

176

TMUs

64

96

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

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

-

FP16 (half)

-

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

GT200B

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

G200-103-B3

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

8 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

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 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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