GeForce GTX 780 and GeForce GTX 260 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 780
GeForce GTX 260 OEM
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
GK110
GT200B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2013
December 2009
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Minimum recommended system power
600 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
One 8-pin and one 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
-
Core clock speed
863 MHz
518 MHz
CUDA cores
2304
-
Floating-point performance
4,156 gflops
414.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
7,080 million
1,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
192
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
182 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
95 °C
-
Texture fill rate
160.5 billion/sec
33.15
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
1792 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
448 Bit
Memory clock speed
6008 MHz
2016 MHz
Memory bandwidth
288.4 GB/s
112.9 GB/s
Display Connectors
One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.3
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.3
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
3D Gaming
+
-
3D Vision
+
-
3D Vision Live
+
-
Blu Ray 3D
+
-
PhysX
+
-