GeForce RTX 2060 vs GeForce GTX 260

GeForce RTX 2060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Jan 2019
GeForce RTX 2060
GeForce GTX 260
Memory: 896Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Jun 2008
GeForce GTX 260

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 2060

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 260

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 RTX 2060

HWBench recommends GeForce RTX 2060

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce RTX 2060GeForce GTX 260
GPU NameTU106 (TU106-200A-KA-A1)vsGT200 (G200-100-A2)
Fab Process12 nmvs65 nm
Die Size445 mm²vs576 mm²
Transistors10,800 millionvs1,400 million
Shaders1920vs192
Compute Units30vs8
Core clock1365 MHzvs576 MHz
ROPs48vs28
TMUs120vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 2060GeForce GTX 260
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR3
Bus Width192 bitvs448 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs999 MHz
1998 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs896 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 2060GeForce GTX 260
TDP160 wattsvs182 watts
Release Date15 Jan 2019vs16 Jun 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    80.64 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 260
    16.10 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    201.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 260
    36.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    336.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 260
    112.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    6451.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 260
    476.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better