NVIDIA 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 dual-slot 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.

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated
Architecture	Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name	GT200B
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	23 July 2008 (15 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	$449
Current price	$400 (0.9x MSRP)	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Technical specs

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 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	1,400 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)	182 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	36.86	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	476.9 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and 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

Memory

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 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width	448 Bit	of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed	1998 MHz	of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Memory bandwidth	111.9 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

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 support

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

Benchmark performance

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

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