Spectre vs GeForce GTX 260 216 Rev. 2

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260 Core 216 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 260 OEM 260 Rev. 2 275 275 PhysX Edition 285 285 Mac Edition 285 X2 295 295 Single PCB GT200B
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Contents

GTX 260 216 Rev. 2 GTX 260 216 Rev. 2
Spectre Spectre

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameGT200BSpectre
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date27 November 2008 (15 years ago)no data
Launch price (MSRP)$299 no data

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 cores216512
Core clock speed576 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,400 million2,410 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)171 Wattno data
Texture fill rate41.47no data
Floating-point processing power0.5365 gflopsno data
ROPs288
TMUs7232

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 x16no data
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinno data

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 typeGDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amount896 MBno data
Memory bus width448 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1998 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth111.9 GB/sno data

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-Videono data

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model4.06.5
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.1
VulkanN/A1.2.170
CUDA1.3-

Pros & cons summary

Chip lithography 55 nm 28 nm

Spectre has a 96.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 and Spectre. We've got no test results to judge.

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