GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 vs GeForce GTX 465

Intro

The GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 makes use of a 65 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 576 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM is set to run at a speed of 999 MHz on this card. It features 216 SPUs along with 72 Texture Address Units and 28 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 465, which features GPU clock speed of 607 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 802 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 352 Stream Processors, 44 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

Model	GeForce GTX 260 Core 216	GeForce GTX 465
Manufacturer	nVidia	nVidia
Year	September 16, 2008	May 2010
Code Name	G200	GF100
Fab Process	65 nm	40 nm
Bus	PCIe x16 2.0	PCIe x16
Memory	896 MB	1024 MB
Core Speed	576 MHz	607 MHz
Shader Speed	1242 MHz	1215 MHz
Memory Speed	999 MHz	802 MHz
Unified Shaders	216	352
Texture Mapping Units	72	44
Render Output Units	28	32
Bus Type	GDDR3	GDDR5
Bus Width	448-bit	256-bit
DirectX Version	DirectX 10	DirectX 11
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 3.1	OpenGL 4.1
Power (Max TDP)	202 watts	200 watts
Shader Model	4.0	5.0
Bandwidth	111888 MB/sec	102592 MB/sec
Texel Rate	41472 Mtexels/sec	26708 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	16128 Mpixels/sec	19424 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.