GeForce GTX 260 and GeForce 256 SDR - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 260

GeForce 256 SDR

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

Celsius (1999−2005)

GPU code name

GT200

NV10 A3

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

June 2008

October 1999

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

AGP 4x

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

None

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

576 MHz

120 MHz

CUDA cores

192

-

Floating-point performance

476.9 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

220 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

17 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

-

Power consumption (TDP)

182 Watt

-

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

36.9 billion/sec

0.48

Memory type

GDDR3

SDR

Maximum RAM amount

896 MB

32 MB

Memory bus width

448 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

999 MHz

143 MHz

Memory bandwidth

111.9 GB/s

1.144 GB/s

Display Connectors

Dual Link DVIHDTV

1x VGA

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

7.0

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

Shader Model

4.0

-

Vulkan

N/A

N/A