NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

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

Released 10 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

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

2752 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 +2011%

10.07 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Sep 2018

Release Date

Jul 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

-

Compute Units

-

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

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

GT200B

TU104-400A-A1

GPU Variant

G200-103-B3

Turing

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

55 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

545 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

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 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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