GeForce GTX 260 216 vs Qualcomm Adreno 690

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking806not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency26.30no data
Architectureno dataTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameno dataGT200
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date6 December 2018 (5 years ago)16 September 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$299

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 coresno data216
Core clock speedno data576 MHz
Number of transistorsno data1,400 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)7 Watt182 Watt
Texture fill rateno data41.47
Floating-point processing powerno data0.5365 TFLOPS
ROPsno data28
TMUsno data72

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 6-pin

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 typeno dataGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data896 MB
Memory bus widthno data448 Bit
Memory clock speedno data999 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data111.9 GB/s
Shared memory+-

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 Connectorsno data2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX1211.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 December 2018 16 September 2008
Chip lithography 5 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 7 Watt 182 Watt

Qualcomm Adreno 690 has an age advantage of 10 years, a 1200% more advanced lithography process, and 2500% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Qualcomm Adreno 690 and GeForce GTX 260 Core 216. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Qualcomm Adreno 690 is a notebook card while GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 is a desktop one.


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Qualcomm Adreno 690
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