GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 sales 23 July 2008 at a recommended price of $449 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a Tesla 2.0 architecture and made with 55 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 896 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 2 GHz are supplied, and together with 448 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 111.9 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. Two 6-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 182 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
Architecture | Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013) | |
GPU code name | GT200B | |
Market segment | Desktop | |
Release date | 23 July 2008 (16 years ago) | |
Launch price (MSRP) | $449 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Pipelines / CUDA cores | 192 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Core clock speed | 576 MHz | of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
Number of transistors | 1,400 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm | of 4 nm (H100 PCIe) |
Power consumption (TDP) | 182 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
Texture fill rate | 36.86 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Floating-point performance | 0.4769 gflops | of 96.77 (GeForce RTX TITAN Ada) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
Length | 267 mm | |
Width | 2-slot | |
Supplementary power connectors | 2x 6-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
Memory type | GDDR3 | |
Maximum RAM amount | 896 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
Memory bus width | 448 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Memory clock speed | 1998 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
Memory bandwidth | 111.9 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
Display Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
Shader Model | 4.0 | |
OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
OpenCL | 1.1 | |
Vulkan | N/A | |
CUDA | 1.3 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 is Radeon HD 2900 XT.
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