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 (15 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 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed576 MHzof 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU)
Number of transistors1,400 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology55 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)171 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate41.47of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power0.5365 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs28of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs72of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

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 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width448 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed999 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth111.9 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

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 compatibility

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 4090)
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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