NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 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 GTX 1080 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1733MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

2344 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +1555%

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

0.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080

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GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Sep 2008

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

-

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

27

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

216

160

TMUs

72

64

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GT200

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

G200-103-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

65 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

182W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

1.3

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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