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Release date: Q3 2008.

Average Bench: 7.31% (348th of 714)

Based on 11,945 user benchmarks.  Devices: 10DE 05E2, 10DE 05EA Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
Poor: 6%Average: 7.31% Great: 9%

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Terrible average bench

The Nvidia GTX 260 averaged 92.6% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 10.2fps
Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere) 9.13fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GTX 260 is just 2.75%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the Nvidia GTX 260 performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 11.9fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 4.99fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 11,945 samples)
Rank 3487.31%
Min Avg Max
8 Lighting 10.2 12.2
7.2 Reflection 11.9 14.4
3.8 Parallax 4.99 5.7
8.33% 9.04 fps
Min Avg Max
7.8 MRender 9.13 10.5
6.5 Gravity 8.3 9.6
3.1 Splatting 3.65 4.3
5.43% 7.03 fps
User Benchmarks Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Nvidia(10DE 0700) 896MB
Ram: 896MB, Driver: 342.01
7.48% Terrible
Lighting 10.5
Reflection 12.2
Parallax 5
9% 9.23 fps
MRender 9.1
Gravity 8.4
Splatting 3.6
5% 7.03 fps
Nvidia(10DE 0700) 896MB
Ram: 896MB, Driver: 342.01
7.29% Terrible
Lighting 10.2
Reflection 12.6
Parallax 5.1
8% 9.3 fps
MRender 8.9
Gravity 8.4
Splatting 3.5
5% 6.93 fps
Nvidia(10DE 0753) 1.8GB
Ram: 1.8GB, Driver: 342.01
5.89% Terrible
Lighting 8.1
Reflection 10.7
Parallax 3.8
7% 7.53 fps
MRender 7.9
Gravity 6.5
Splatting 3.2
4% 5.87 fps
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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price (MSRP ≈ $250 @ launch in Sep '08)
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Device(0000 0000) 10% 8% ± 1%
Nvidia(10DE 0585) 7% 7% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 0738) 6% 6% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1257) 6% 8% ± 1%
Gainward(10B0 0801) 6% 8% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 0753) 5% 6% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 1109) 5% 7% ± 1%
XFX(1682 2390) 4% 7% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 064B) 4% 7% ± 1%
Nvidia(10DE 068E) 3% 8% ± 1%
Asus(1043 8291) 3% 7% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 34CA) 2% 8% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 34DB) 2% 9% ± 0%
Asus(1043 82C4) 2% 8% ± 1%
XFX(1682 2391) 2% 8% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B 2600) 2% 6% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2393) 2% 7% ± 1%
XFX(1682 2394) 2% 8% ± 1%
Asus(1043 8301) 2% 7% ± 0%
Asus(1043 82E3) 2% 7% ± 0%
BFG(19F1 0CDD) 2% 7% ± 1%
Nvidia(10DE 0700) 1% 7% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1260) 1% 7% ± 0%
MSI(1462 1771) 1% 8% ± 0%
Asus(1043 831C) 1% 7% ± 1%
BFG(19F1 09A6) 1% 7% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1262) 1% 7% ± 1%
EVGA(3842 1255) 1% 7% ± 1%
EVGA(3842 1267) 1% 8% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 34C8) 1% 8% ± 0%
BFG(19F1 0FA9) 1% 8% ± 0%
Asus(1043 831A) 1% 7% ± 0%
Device(107D 20D5) 1% 7% ± 1%
Device(107D 2AE2) 1% 7% ± 1%
Asus(1043 8298) 1% 8% ± 1%
PNY(196E 064B) 1% 6% ± 1%
Device(172F 15E2) 1% 8% ± 2%
Zotac(19DA 2120) 1% 7% ± 0%
PNY(196E 068E) 1% 7% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1265) 0% 7% ± 0%
BFG(19F1 0ABA) 0% 8% ± 0%
Asus(1043 82CF) 0% 7% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1258) 0% 9% ± 0%
MSI(1462 1800) 0% 8% ± 0%
Asus(1043 82EB) 0% 8% ± 1%
XFX(1682 2392) 0% 8% ± 0%
BFG(19F1 0CFB) 0% 8% ± 0%
BFG(19F1 0AE0) 0% 8% ± 0%
Asus(1043 82C5) 0% 8% ± 0%
Device(107D 20DC) 0% 8% ± 0%
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CPU
Core i7-920Intel  $90Bench 62%, 69,074 samples313x
Core i7 960Intel  $220Bench 68%, 16,233 samples19x
Xeon X5550IntelBench 67%, 1,065 samples15x
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GTX 260Nvidia  $250Bench 7%, 11,945 samples21x
SSD
A400 240GBKingston  $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples17x
MX500 500GBCrucial  $46Bench 106%, 237,241 samples17x
MKNSSDS2120GB 120GBMushkinBench 65%, 202 samples15x
RAM
6x2GBUnknownBench 46%, 38,297 samples71x
6x4GBUnknownBench 47%, 28,320 samples42x
3x4GBUnknownBench 42%, 39,448 samples41x
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 Comments

GPUPro
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1,637

Official site www.geforce.com/...

Added 9 years ago.
USA-User
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9,832

Terrible (edit your comment) Add link

2 months ago.

GBR-User
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5,780

Excellent

2 years ago.

On most games, I get around 30 fps on medium settings and no tweaks.

CAN-User
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4,956

Good

9 months ago.

by this point, it performs the same as modern integrated graphics. it's not worth it anymore.

RUS-User
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4,776

Excellent

2 years ago.

Solidworks works much better with GTX 260.

NLD-User
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3,510

Excellent

2 years ago.

2018, and still runs a lot of games. To name a few: Rocket league, LoL, skyrim, borderlands 2, all good fps!

BGR-User
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2,880

Excellent

12 months ago.

CS:GO Max Graphics 80-180 FPS on Dust2 x16 msaa very playable i think

Waaaaaal
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16

Poor

24 months ago.

It was a graphics card. It is now garbage.

Yeoss
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14

Terrible

4 years ago.

Too weak to be at this spot.

5912352351
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12

Excellent

3 years ago.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 or GT200 that was launched in around June of 2008 was considered to be the first GTX GPU in the GeForce 200 series and was also "Freaking Revolutionary" like the other GPUs that existed before it. It had the ability to now run games at 1600x900 perfectly, but not 1920x1080 yet during it's time because 1920x1080 didn't exist. The Specifications of it is that it had a Process size of 65mm, 1.4 Billion Transistors, and a Die Size of 576mm^2 with Clock Speeds from 576 MHz, 1.242 GHz, and 999 MHz to 1.998 GHz. It had a Length of 267mm or 10.5 In, TDP of 182W, and PSU of 450W along with 2 DVI and S-Video Outputs. It had a GDDR3 Memory @ 896 MB and a 111.9GB/s Bandwith with 448 Bit memory. It had a Rendering Configuration of 192 SU, 64 TMUs, 28 ROPs, 24 SMs and a L2 Cache of 224 KB. It's Theoretical Preformance is 16.13 GPixel/s, 36.86 GTexel/s, a 476.9 GFLOPs preformance, and a 59.62 GFLOPS preformance. It's Graphical Features were that it had the ability to support DirectX 11, OpenGL 3.3, OpenCL 1.1, CUDA 1.3, and Shader 4. It is one of the few GPUs that could actually run the 2007 or 2009 Crysis if Paired with a i5-4460 and 8GB Ram at 35 FPS on 1080p High settings, Fallout 3 at 1080p Ultra Settings at 55 FPS, and Metro Last Light at 1080p Medium at 38 FPS.

Verhexen
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4

Average

5 years ago.

Good card for lighter gaming and everyday use in 2018/19, the lower DX support is the main roadblock on this card.

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