NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 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 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages

Released 16 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock2475MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

5696 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 +6011%

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

Aug 2024

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1920 MHz

Base Clock

-

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

448bit

480.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

46

SM Count

24

5888

Shading Units

192

184

TMUs

64

ROPs

28

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

36 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

182W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GT200

AD104-2XX-A1

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

65 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

294 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

8.9

CUDA

1.3

6.8

Shader Model

4.0

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