NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 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 RTX 2060 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1680MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (160W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 +1252%

6.451 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060

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GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

-

1680 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

448bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

24

1920

Shading Units

192

120

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

28

240

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.451 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

TDP

182W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

GT200

TU106-200A-KA-A1

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

Turing

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

65 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

7.5

CUDA

1.3

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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