NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 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 15 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock2475MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 896GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)
5672 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 's Advantages
Lower TDP (182W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+5338%
29.15 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216
0.536 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2024
Release Date
Sep 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
27
5888
Shading Units
216
184
TMUs
72
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
41.47 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
536.5 GFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
67.07 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
G200-103-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
