ATI Radeon HD 5950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 and 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5950 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 112.9GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (1792GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (182W vs 302W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5950 +403%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

0.415 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Dec 2009

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1792MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.9GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

-

SM Count

24

1440

Shading Units

192

72

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

28

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.50 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.15 GTexel/s

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

414.7 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

51.84 GFLOPS

Board Design

302W

TDP

182W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GT200B

Hemlock PRO

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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