GeForce GTX 470 and GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 470
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
GF100
GT200
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2010
September 2008
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 6-pins
2x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
607 MHz
576 MHz
CUDA cores
448
-
Floating-point performance
1,088.6 gflops
536.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
1,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
448
216
Power consumption (TDP)
225 Watt
182 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
34.0 billion/sec
41.47
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1280 MB
896 MB
Memory bus width
320 Bit
448 Bit
Memory clock speed
1674 MHz (3348 data rate)
1998 MHz
Memory bandwidth
133.9 GB/s
111.9 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVIMini HDMI
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.3
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.2
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A