GeForce GTX 260 and GK104 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 260

GK104

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

Kepler (2012−2018)

GPU code name

GT200

GK104

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

June 2008

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Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

-

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

-

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

576 MHz

-

CUDA cores

192

-

Floating-point performance

476.9 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

3,540 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

1536

Power consumption (TDP)

182 Watt

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Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

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Texture fill rate

36.9 billion/sec

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Memory type

GDDR3

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Maximum RAM amount

896 MB

-

Memory bus width

448 Bit

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Memory clock speed

999 MHz

-

Memory bandwidth

111.9 GB/s

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Display Connectors

Dual Link DVIHDTV

-

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

+

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

3.0

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.5 (5.1)

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.175

NVENC

-

1st Gen

PureVideo HD

-

VP5