GeForce GTX 1070 SLI and GeForce GTX 260 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1070 SLI

GeForce GTX 260

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GPU code name

Pascal GP104 SLI

GT200

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

August 2016

June 2008

Interface

-

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

2x 6-pin

SLI options

+

+

Boost clock speed

1683 MHz

-

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

576 MHz

CUDA cores

-

192

Floating-point performance

-

476.9 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

65 nm

Number of transistors

14400 Million

1,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3840

192

Power consumption (TDP)

300 Watt

182 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

-

105 °C

Texture fill rate

-

36.9 billion/sec

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

2x 8 GB

896 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

448 Bit

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

999 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

111.9 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

-

Dual Link DVIHDTV

Multi monitor support

-

+

HDMI

-

+

Maximum VGA resolution

-

2048x1536

G-SYNC support

+

-

Audio input for HDMI

-

S/PDIF

DirectX

12_1

11.1 (10_0)

CUDA

+

+

OpenCL

-

1.1

OpenGL

-

2.1

Shader Model

-

4.0

Vulkan

+

N/A

VR Ready

+

-