GeForce GTX 460 and GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 460

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GPU code name

GF104

GT200

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

July 2010

September 2008

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 6-pin

2x 6-pin

SLI options

Core clock speed

675 MHz

576 MHz

Floating-point performance

907.2 gflops

536.5 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

65 nm

Number of transistors

1,950 million

1,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

336

216

Power consumption (TDP)

160 Watt

182 Watt

Texture fill rate

37.80

41.47

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

896 MB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

448 Bit

Memory clock speed

3600 MHz

1998 MHz

Memory bandwidth

86.4 GB/s

111.9 GB/s

Display Connectors

Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Multi monitor support

HDMI

HDCP

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

DirectX

12 (11_0)

11.1 (10_0)

CUDA

1.3

OpenCL

1.1

OpenGL

4.1

3.3

Shader Model

5.1

4.0

Vulkan

N/A