NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 8 month(s) later
2x more pipelines: 384 vs 192
2.2x better floating-point performance: 1,059 gflops vs 476.9 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 65 nm
9.1x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 182 Watt
2.3x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 896 MB
2.1x more memory clock speed: 2100 MHz vs 999 MHz

Launch date	12 March 2018 vs 16 June 2008
Pipelines	384 vs 192
Floating-point performance	1,059 gflops vs 476.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 182 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 896 MB
Memory clock speed	2100 MHz vs 999 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

Around 8% higher core clock speed: 1242 MHz vs 1152 MHz
Around 11% higher texture fill rate: 36.9 billion / sec vs 33.1 GTexel / s

Core clock speed	1242 MHz vs 1152 MHz
Texture fill rate	36.9 billion / sec vs 33.1 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	629
PassMark - G3D Mark		1208
PassMark - G2D Mark		53
Geekbench - OpenCL		19512
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		8.664
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		477.327
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		24.906
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		29.525
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3342
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3342

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	Tesla 2.0
Code name	GP108	GT200
Launch date	12 March 2018	16 June 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$79	$449
Place in performance rating	1476	1396
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Price now		$95.38
Value for money (0-100)		13.70
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1379 MHz
Core clock speed	1152 MHz	1242 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,059 gflops	476.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	384	192
Texture fill rate	33.1 GTexel / s	36.9 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt	182 Watt
Transistor count	1,800 million	1,400 million
CUDA cores		192
Maximum GPU temperature		105 °C
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI	2x DVI, 1x S-Video, Dual Link DVIHDTV
Audio input for HDMI		S / PDIF
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x4	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	145 mm	10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm)
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 6-pin
Height		4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
SLI options		2-way3-way
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	896 MB
Memory bandwidth	16.8 GB / s	111.9 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	448 Bit
Memory clock speed	2100 MHz	999 MHz
Memory type	DDR4	GDDR3
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI