GeForce GTX 260 and GeForce GTS 450 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 260
GeForce GTS 450 OEM
Architecture
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
GT200
GF106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2008
October 2010
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
576 MHz
790 MHz
CUDA cores
192
-
Floating-point performance
476.9 gflops
455.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,400 million
1,170 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
144
Power consumption (TDP)
182 Watt
106 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
36.9 billion/sec
18.96
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
896 MB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
448 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
999 MHz
4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
111.9 GB/s
96 GB/s
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVIHDTV
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A