NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA RTX A400
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 4GB VRAM RTX A400 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
NVIDIA RTX A400 's Advantages
Released 15 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1762MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 896GB)
576 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (50W vs 182W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 260
0.477 TFLOPS
RTX A400
+467%
2.706 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Apr 2024
GeForce 200
Generation
Quadro Ampere(Ax000)
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1417 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1762 MHz
999 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
896MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
448bit
Memory Bus
64bit
111.9GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
24
SM Count
6
192
Shading Units
768
64
TMUs
24
28
ROPs
16
-
Tensor Cores
24
-
RT Cores
6
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
224 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
16.13 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.19 GPixel/s
36.86 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
42.29 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
2.706 TFLOPS
476.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.706 TFLOPS
59.62 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
42.29 GFLOPS
Board Design
182W
TDP
50W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GT200
GPU Name
GA107
G200-100-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
65 nm
Process Size
8 nm
1.4 billion
Transistors
8.7 billion
576 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
4.0
Shader Model
6.8
