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

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 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 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 896GB)

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

1856 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +944%

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jul 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

24

2048

Shading Units

192

128

TMUs

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

36.86 GTexel/s

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 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

GT200B

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

G200-103-B3

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

398 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

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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