NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

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Graphics Processor

GPU model NV30 GT200B
Architecture Rankine Tesla 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 130 nm 55 nm
Number of transistors 125 million 1,400 million
Die size 199 mm² 470 mm²
GPU variant G200-103-B2

Graphics Card

Release date Mar 6th, 2003 Nov 27th, 2008
Generation GeForce FX GeForce 200
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 299 USD 299 USD
Interface AGP 8x PCIe 2.0 x16
Predecessor GeForce 4 Ti GeForce 9
Successor GeForce 6 AGP GeForce 400
Reviews 137 in our database

Clocks

GPU clock 400 MHz 576 MHz
Memory clock 400 MHz 800 Mbps effective 999 MHz 1998 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1242 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 128 MB 896 MB
Memory type GDDR2 GDDR3
Memory bus width 128 bit 448 bit
Bandwidth 12.80 GB/s 111.9 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 4
Vertex shaders 2
TMUs 8 72
ROPs 4 28
Shading units 216
SM count 27
Cache L2 224 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 1.600 GPixel/s 16.13 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 200.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 3.200 GTexel/s 41.47 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 536.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 67.07 GFLOPS (1:8)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 213 mm 8.4 inches 267 mm 10.5 inches
TDP 44 W 171 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 450 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video 2x DVI1x S-Video
Power connectors 1x Molex 2x 6-pin
Board number P897

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0a 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 1.5 (2.1) 3.3
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan
Pixel shader 2.0a
Vertex shader 2.0a
CUDA 1.3
Shader model 4.0

Other Features

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