GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2: specs and benchmarks
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 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 | 27 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 cores | 216 | of 57344 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Core clock speed | 576 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 1,400 million | of 670,000 million (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm | of 2 nm (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 171 Watt | of 3600 Watt (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Texture fill rate | 41.47 | of 4,062.5 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.5365 TFLOPS | of 260 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| ROPs | 28 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 72 | of 1792 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| L2 Cache | 224 KB | of 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).
| 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 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 type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 896 MB | of 432 GB (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Memory bus width | 448 Bit | of 32768 Bit (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Memory clock speed | 999 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 111.9 GB/s | of 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 Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 5090 D) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 1.3 |
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
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 is Radeon HD 3870 X2.
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