NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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 GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +405%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

448bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

24

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

192

64

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GT200

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

182W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-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

5.2

CUDA

1.3

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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