NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

Table of Contents

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 Dec 8th, 2009
Generation GeForce FX GeForce 200
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 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 518 MHz
Memory clock 400 MHz 800 Mbps effective 1008 MHz 2 Gbps effective
Shader clock 1080 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 128 MB 1792 MB
Memory type GDDR2 GDDR3
Memory bus width 128 bit 448 bit
Bandwidth 12.80 GB/s 112.9 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 4
Vertex shaders 2
TMUs 8 64
ROPs 4 28
Shading units 192
SM count 24
Cache L2 224 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 1.600 GPixel/s 14.50 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 200.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 3.200 GTexel/s 33.15 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 414.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 51.84 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 182 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 P898

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

Compare

Sysrqmts browser extension icon
Stop overpaying for PC games!
See cheapest prices in Steam store with our browser extension.