NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (171W vs 244W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

296 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

0.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 +194%

1.581 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

VS

GeForce GTX 580

Graphics Card

Nov 2008

Release Date

Nov 2010

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

384bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

27

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

216

Shading Units

512

72

TMUs

64

28

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

41.47 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

536.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

67.07 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

GF110

G200-103-B2

GPU Variant

GF110-375-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

3 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

171W

TDP

244W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

2.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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