NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1620MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2070 +1464%

7.465 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070

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GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Jul 2008

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1620 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

36

SM Count

24

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

192

144

TMUs

64

ROPs

28

288

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

103.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

233.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

14.93 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.465 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

233.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

GT200B

TU106-400A-A1

GPU Variant

G200-103-B3

Turing

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

55 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

182W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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

7.5

CUDA

1.3

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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