GeForce GTX 260 vs GeForce GTS 240 OEM

GeForce GTX 260
Memory: 896Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Jun 2008
GeForce GTX 260
GeForce GTS 240 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Jul 2009
GeForce GTS 240 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 260

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 240 OEM

62 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 260 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

GeForce GTX 260

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 260

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 260GeForce GTS 240 OEM
GPU NameGT200 (G200-100-A2)vsG92B (G92-240-B1)
Fab Process65 nmvs55 nm
Die Size576 mm²vs260 mm²
Transistors1,400 millionvs754 million
Shaders192vs112
Compute Units8vs7
Core clock576 MHzvs675 MHz
ROPs28vs16
TMUs64vs56

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 260GeForce GTS 240 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width448 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed999 MHz
1998 MHz effective
vs1100 MHz
2200 MHz effective
Memory Size896 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 260GeForce GTS 240 OEM
TDP182 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date16 Jun 2008vs1 Jul 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 260
    16.10 GP/s
  • GeForce GTS 240 OEM
    10.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 260
    36.90 GT/s
  • GeForce GTS 240 OEM
    37.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 260
    112.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTS 240 OEM
    70.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 260
    476.90 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTS 240 OEM
    362.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better