Quadro FX 580 and GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 - video card comparison
Quadro FX 580
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
G96C
GT200
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
April 2009
September 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Core clock speed
450 MHz
576 MHz
Floating-point performance
72 gflops
536.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
314 million
1,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
216
Power consumption (TDP)
40 Watt
182 Watt
Texture fill rate
7.200
41.47
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
896 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
448 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
1998 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
111.9 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
1.1
1.3
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A