GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 and GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

GT200

GF100

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

September 2008

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Core clock speed

576 MHz

608 MHz

Floating-point performance

536.5 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

3,100 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

216

448

Power consumption (TDP)

182 Watt

215 Watt

Texture fill rate

41.47

34.05

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

896 MB

1280 MB

Memory bus width

448 Bit

320 Bit

Memory clock speed

1998 MHz

3.3 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

111.9 GB/s

133.9 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

HDMI

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

1.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

OpenGL

3.3

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

5.1

Vulkan

N/A