NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 896GB)

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

1832 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +829%

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

0.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Sep 2008

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1216 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

27

2048

Shading Units

216

128

TMUs

72

64

ROPs

28

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

182W

450 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

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

G200-103-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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