NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 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 2080 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

2752 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 +2011%

10.07 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

Sep 2018

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1515 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

46

SM Count

24

2944

Shading Units

192

184

TMUs

64

ROPs

28

368

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

314.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

20.14 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.07 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

314.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

182W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

GT200

TU104-400A-A1

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

Turing

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

65 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

545 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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