GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 sales 27 November 2008 at a recommended price of $299. 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 1 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 171 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameGT200B
Market segmentDesktop
Release date27 November 2008 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$299 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 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 Core 216 Rev. 2's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores216of 57344 (Rubin Ultra GPU)
Core clock speed576 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors1,400 millionof 670,000 million (Rubin Ultra GPU)
Manufacturing process technology55 nmof 2 nm (Radeon Instinct MI455X)
Power consumption (TDP)171 Wattof 3600 Watt (Rubin Ultra GPU)
Texture fill rate41.47of 4,062.5 (Rubin Ultra GPU)
Floating-point processing power0.5365 TFLOPSof 260 (Rubin Ultra GPU)
ROPs28of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs72of 1792 (Rubin Ultra GPU)
L2 Cache224 KBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
Length267 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 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 typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount896 MBof 432 GB (Radeon Instinct MI455X)
Memory bus width448 Bitof 32768 Bit (Rubin Ultra GPU)
Memory clock speed999 MHzof 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth111.9 GB/sof 3,277 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI250X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API and SDK support

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.0
OpenGL3.3of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 5090 D)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A
CUDA1.3

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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AMD equivalent

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