GeForce RTX 4060 vs GTX 260 216

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated51
Place by popularitynot in top-1002
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data100.00
Power efficiencyno data30.71
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGT200AD107
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date16 September 2008 (16 years ago)18 May 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$299 $299

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2163072
Core clock speed576 MHz1830 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2460 MHz
Number of transistors1,400 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)182 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate41.47236.2
Floating-point processing power0.5365 TFLOPS15.11 TFLOPS
ROPs2848
TMUs7296
Tensor Coresno data96
Ray Tracing Coresno data24

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length267 mm240 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin1x 12-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount896 MB8 GB
Memory bus width448 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed999 MHz2125 MHz
Memory bandwidth111.9 GB/s272.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.8
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA1.38.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 September 2008 18 May 2023
Maximum RAM amount 896 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 65 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 182 Watt 115 Watt

RTX 4060 has an age advantage of 14 years, a 814.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 1200% more advanced lithography process, and 58.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 and GeForce RTX 4060. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216
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