June 1, 2009
The features of the GTX 260 Core 216 896-P3-1255-AR include the 55nm GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 (576MHz clock) chipset, 896MB of 448-bit 1ns GDDR3 memory with a 999MHz clock with an effective rate of 1998MHz, 1242MHz Shader Clock, 216 processing cores, PCI Express 2.0 compatibility, Dual DVI-I connectors, 111.9GB per second memory bandwidth, 2nd. Googling around suggests that the 10×0 cards work fine in Mac Pros too. I replaced my Pro with a MacBook Air and a custom gaming PC, but I think the 4,1/5,1 Pro remains a really good computer. — I thought I’d try dropping a GeForce GTX 670 into my Mac Pro, since apparently 10.8 can drive it (you just won’t get the EFI boot screens). The Nvidia GTX 260 is compatible with Intel Pentium 4 and higher processors as well as AMD Athlon XP class and higher processors. The graphics card is not compatible with Intel Pentium 3 or older processors, or similar older AMD processors. The Nvidia GTX 260 is also not compatible with Mac PowerPC or Intel systems. EVGA Geforece GTX 260 Core 216 896MB 448 Bit GDDR3 S-Video Dual DVI Video Card. Make Offer - EVGA Geforece GTX 260 Core 216 896MB 448 Bit GDDR3 S-Video Dual DVI Video Card. Nvidia MSI N260GTX T2D896 OCv3 GTX 260 core 216. $31.00 +$9.34 shipping.
GTX 260/285/275 on MacPro
Tired of waiting for GTX285 mac edition to appear?
you can try it already on MacPro, you will need:
1) working efi nvidia card (7300gt/8800gt/gt120), ati might work too
2) some gtx 2xx card you wanna get working
3) install Injector pkg – link
4) do not reboot after previous step, and install drivers from quadro 4800 disk (you can find them in irc , irc.osx86.hu #gt200 channel, link in topic)
5) now reboot.
Gtx 260 For Macbook Pro
Good editing softwares for mac. if you are lucky enough, you will get this, some minor glitches yet, like wrong ram size(working on it), but it works:
| Release date | June 16, 2008; 12 years ago |
|---|---|
| Codename | GT200 |
| Architecture | Tesla |
| Models | GeForce Series
|
| Transistors | 505M 55nm (G94b)
|
| Cards | |
| Entry-level | 205 210 GT 220 GT 230 |
| Mid-range | GT 240 GTS 250 |
| High-end | GTX 260 GTX 275 |
| Enthusiast | GTX 280 GTX 285 GTX 295 |
| API support | |
| Direct3D | Direct3D 10.0 or 10.1 |
| OpenCL | OpenCL 1.1 |
| OpenGL | OpenGL 3.3 |
| History | |
| Predecessor | GeForce 9 series |
| Variant | GeForce 300 series |
| Successor | GeForce 400 series |
The GeForce 200 Series is a series of Tesla-based GeForcegraphics processing units developed by Nvidia.
Architecture[edit]
The GeForce 200 Series introduced Nvidia's second generation of Tesla (microarchitecture), Nvidia's unified shader architecture; the first major update to it since introduced with the GeForce 8 Series.
The GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 are based on the same processor core. During the manufacturing process, GTX chips were binned and separated through defect testing of the core's logic functionality. Those that fail to meet the GTX 280 hardware specification are re-tested and binned as GTX 260 (which is specified with fewer stream processors, less ROPs and a narrower memory bus).
In late 2008, Nvidia re-released the GTX 260 with 216 stream processors, up from 192. Effectively, there were two GTX 260 cards in production with non-trivial performance differences.
The GeForce 200 series GPUs (GT200a/b GPU), excluding GeForce GTS 250, GTS 240 GPUs (these are older G92b GPUs), have double precision support for use in GPGPU applications. GT200 GPUs also have improved performance in geometry shading.
As of August 2018, the GT200 is the seventh largest commercial GPU ever constructed, consisting of 1.4 billion transistors covering a 576 mm2 die surface area built on a 65 nm process. It is the fifth largest CMOS-logic chip that has been fabricated at the TSMC foundry. The GeForce 400 Series have since superseded the GT200 chips in transistor count, but the original GT200 dies still exceed the GF100 die size. It is larger than even the Kepler-based GK210 GPU used in the Tesla K80, which has 7.1 billion transistors on a 561 mm2 die manufactured in 28 nm.[1] The Ampere GA100 is currently the largest commercial GPU ever fabricated at 826 mm2 with 54.2 billion transistors.[2]
Nvidia officially announced and released the retail version of the previously OEM only GeForce 210 (GT218 GPU) and GeForce GT 220 (GT216 GPU) on October 12, 2009. Nvidia officially announced and released the GeForce GT 240 (GT215 GPU) on November 17, 2009. The new 40nm GPUs feature the new PureVideo HD VP4 decoder hardware in them, the older GeForce 8 and 9 GPUs only have PureVideo HD VP2 or VP3(G98). They also support Compute Capability 1.2, whereas older GeForce 8 and 9 GPUs only supported Compute Capability 1.1. All GT21x GPUs also contain an audio processor inside and support 8 channel LPCM output through HDMI.
Chipset table[edit]
GeForce 200 Series[edit]
All models support Coverage Sample Anti-Aliasing, Angle-Independent Anisotropic Filtering, 240-bit OpenEXR HDR
- 1Unified Shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units
| Model | Launch | Code name | Fab (nm) | Transistors (Million) | Die size (mm2) | Core config 1 | Clock rate | Fillrate | Memory Configuration | API support (version) | Processing Power GFLOPS | TDP (watts) | Comments | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core (MHz) | Shader (MHz) | Memory (MHz) | Pixel (GP/s) | Texture (GT/s) | Size (MB) | Bandwidth (GB/s) | DRAM type | Bus width (bit) | DirectX | OpenGL | Vulkan | |||||||||||
| GeForce 205 | November 26, 2009 | GT218 | 40 | 260 | 57 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 8:4:4 | 589 | 1402 | 1000 | 2.356 | 2.356 | 512 | 8 | DDR2 | 64 | 10.1 | 3.3 | N/A | 33.4 | 30.5 | OEM only |
| GeForce 210 | October 12, 2009 | GT218 | 40 | 260 | 57 | PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe x1 PCI | 16:8:4 | 520 589 | 1230 1402 | 1000–1600 | 2.356 | 4.712 | 512 1024 | 4.0 8.0 12.8 | DDR2 DDR3 | 32 64 | 67.296 | 30.5 | ||||
| GeForce GT 220 | October 12, 2009 | GT216 | 40 | 486 | 100 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 48:16:8 | 615(OEM) 625 | 1335(OEM) 1360 | 1000 1580 | 5 | 10 | 512 1024 | 16.0 25.3 | 128 | 192(OEM) 196 | 58 | |||||
| GeForce GT 230 v.1 | 2009 | G94b | 55 | 505 | 196 [3] | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 48:24:16 | 650 | 1625 | 1800 | 10.4 | 15.6 | 512 1024 | 57.6 | GDDR3 | 256 | 10 | 234 | 75 | OEM only | ||
| GeForce GT 230 v.2 | 2009 | G92b | 55 | 754 | 260 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 96:48:12 | 500 | 1242 | 1000 | 6 | 24 | 1536 | 24 | DDR2 | 192 | 10 | 357.69 | 75 | OEM only | ||
| GeForce GT 240 | November 17, 2009 | GT215 | 40 | 727 | 139 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 96:32:8 | 550 | 1340 | 1800 2000 3400(GDDR5) | 4.4 | 17.6 | 512 1024 | 28.8(OEM) 32 54.4(GDDR5) | DDR3 GDDR3 GDDR5 | 128 | 10.1 | 385.9 | 69 | |||
| GeForce GTS 240 | Q4 2009 | G92a G92b | 65 55 | 754 | 324 260 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 112:56:16 | 675 | 1620 | 2200 | 10.8 | 37.8 | 1024 | 70.4 | GDDR3 | 256 | 10.0 | 554.32 | 120 | OEM only | ||
| GeForce GTS 250 Green | 2009 | G92b | 65 55 | 754 | 260 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 128:64:16 | 702 | 1512 | 2000 | 11.2 | 44.9 | 512 1024 | 64.0 | 256 | 581 | 130 | |||||
| GeForce GTS 250 | March 3, 2009 | G92-428-B1 | 65 55 | 754 | 260 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 128:64:16 | 738 | 1836 | 2000 2200 | 11.808 | 47.232 | 512 1024 | 64.0 70.4 | 256 | 705.024 | 150 | Some cards are rebranded GeForce 9800 GTX+ | ||||
| GeForce GTX 260 | June 16, 2008 | GT200-100-A2 | 65 | 1400 | 576 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 192:64:28 | 576 | 1242 | 1998 | 16.128 | 36.864 | 896 (1792)[4] | 111.9 | 448 | 715.392 | 202 | Replaced by GTX 260 Core 216 | ||||
| GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 | September 16, 2008 | GT200-103-A2 GT200-105-B3 | 65 55 | 1400 | 576 470 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 216:72:28 | 576 | 1242 | 1998 | 16.128 | 41.472 | 896 (1792) | 111.9 | 448 | 804.816 874.8 | 182 171 | |||||
| GeForce GTX 275 | April 9, 2009 | GT200-400-B3 | 55 | 1400 | 470 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 240:80:28 | 633 | 1404 | 2268 | 17.724 | 50.6 | 896 | 127.0 | 448 | 1010.880 | 219 | Effectively one-half of the GTX 295 | ||||
| GeForce GTX 280 | June 17, 2008 | GT200-300-A2 | 65 | 1400 | 576 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 240:80:32 | 602 | 1296 | 2214 | 19.264 | 48.16 | 1024 | 141.7 | 512 | 933.120 | 236 | Replaced by GTX 285 | ||||
| GeForce GTX 285 | January 15, 2009 | GT200-350-B3 | 55 | 1400 | 470 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 240:80:32 | 648 | 1476 | 2484 | 20.736 | 51.84 | 1024 (2048*) | 159.0 | 512 | 1062.72 | 204 | Palit and EVGA launched 2GB versions. EVGA GTX285 Classified can support 4-way SLI | ||||
| GeForce GTX 295 | January 8, 2009 | 2× GT200-400-B3 | 55 | 2× 1400 | 2× 470 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 2× 240:80:28 | 576 | 1242 | 1998 | 2× 16.128 | 2× 46.08 | 2× 896 | 2× 111.9 | 2× 448 | 1788.480 | 289 | Dual PCB models were phased out in favor of a single PCB model with 2 GPUs | ||||
Features[edit]
Compute Capability: 1.1 (G92 [GTS250] GPU)
Compute Capability: 1.2 (GT215, GT216, GT218 GPUs)
Compute Capability: 1.3 has double precision support for use in GPGPU applications. (GT200a/b GPUs only)
| Model | Features | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scalable Link Interface (SLI) | PureVideo 2 with VP2 Engine: (BSP and 240 AES) | PureVideo 4 with VP4 Engine | ||||||
| GeForce 210 | No | No | Yes | |||||
| GeForce GT 220 | ||||||||
| GeForce GT 240 | ||||||||
| GeForce GTS 250 | Yes 3-Way (4-way for EVGA 285 Classified) | Yes | No | |||||
| GeForce GTX 260 | ||||||||
| GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 | ||||||||
| GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 (55 nm) | ||||||||
| GeForce GTX 275 | ||||||||
| GeForce GTX 280 | ||||||||
| GeForce GTX 285 | ||||||||
| GeForce GTX 295 | Yes | |||||||
GeForce 200M (2xxM) Series[edit]
The GeForce 200M Series is a graphics processor architecture for notebooks.
- 1Unified Shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units
| Model | Launch | Code name | Fab (nm) | Core config1 | Clock speed | Fillrate | Memory | API support (version) | Processing Power (GFLOPS) | TDP (watts) | Notes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core (MHz) | Shader (MHz) | Memory (MHz) | Pixel (GP/s) | Texture (GT/s) | Size (MiB) | Bandwidth (GB/s) | Bus type | Bus width (bit) | DirectX | OpenGL | Vulkan | |||||||||
| GeForce G210M | June 15, 2009 | GT218 | 40 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 16:8:4 | 625 | 1500 | 1600 | 2.5 | 5 | 512 | 12.8 | GDDR3 | 64 | 10.1 | 3.3 | N/A | 72 | 14 | Lower clocked versions of the GT218 core is also known as Nvidia ION 2 |
| GeForce GT 220M | 2009 | G96b | 55 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 32:16:8 | 500 | 1250 | 1000 1600 | 4 | 8 | 1024 | 16 25.6 | DDR2 GDDR3 | 128 | 10.0 | 120 | 14 | Rebranded 9600M GT @55 nm node shrink | ||
| GeForce GT 230M | June 15, 2009 | GT216 | 40 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 48:16:8 | 500 | 1100 | 1600 | 4 | 8 | 1024 | 25.6 | GDDR3 | 128 | 10.1 | 158 | 23 | |||
| GeForce GT 240M | June 15, 2009 | GT216 | 40 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 48:16:8 | 550 | 1210 | 1600 | 4.4 | 8.8 | 1024 | 25.6 | GDDR3 | 128 | 174 | 23 | ||||
| GeForce GTS 250M | June 15, 2009 | GT215 | 40 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 96:32:8 | 500 | 1250 | 3200 | 4 | 16 | 1024 | 51.2 | GDDR5 | 128 | 360 | 28 | ||||
| GeForce GTS 260M | June 15, 2009 | GT215 | 40 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 96:32:8 | 550 | 1375 | 3600 | 4.4 | 17.6 | 1024 | 57.6 | GDDR5 | 128 | 396 | 38 | ||||
| GeForce GTX 260M | March 3, 2009 | G92b | 55 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 112:56:16 | 550 | 1375 | 1900 | 8.8 | 30.8 | 1024 | 60.8 | GDDR3 | 256 | 10.0 | 462 | 65 | |||
| GeForce GTX 280M | March 3, 2009 | G92b | 55 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 128:64:16 | 585 | 1463 | 1900 | 9.36 | 37.44 | 1024 | 60.8 | GDDR3 | 256 | 562 | 75 | ||||
| GeForce GTX 285M | February 2010 | G92b | 55 | PCIe 2.0 x16 | 128:64:16 | 600 | 1500 | 2000 | 9.6 | 38.4 | 1024 | 64.0 | GDDR3 | 256 | 576 | 75 | Higher clocked version of GTX280M with improved memory | |||
Discontinued support[edit]
Gtx 260 For Mac Os
NVIDIA has ceased driver support for GeForce 200 series on April 1, 2016.[5]
- Windows XP 32-bit & Media Center Edition: version 340.52 released on July 29, 2014; Download
- Windows XP 64-bit: version 340.52 released on July 29, 2014; Download
- Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 32-bit: version 342.01 (WHQL) released on December 14, 2016; Download
- Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 64-bit: version 342.01 (WHQL) released on December 14, 2016; Download
- Windows 10, 32-bit: version 342.01 (WHQL) released on December 14, 2016; Download
- Windows 10, 64-bit: version 342.01 (WHQL) released on December 14, 2016; Download
- Linux, 64-bit: version 340.108 released on December 23, 2019; Download
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Smith, Ryan. 'NVIDIA Launches Tesla K80, GK210 GPU'. AnandTech. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
- ^https://www.anandtech.com/show/15801/nvidia-announces-ampere-architecture-and-a100-products
- ^http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/617/geforce-gt-230.html
- ^http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=321861
- ^EOL driver support for legacy products
Gtx 260 Driver Mac
External links[edit]
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to GeForce 200 series. |
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