ATI FireGL V8600 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

VS

ATI FireGL V8600

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (159W vs 182W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 +8%

0.477 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Jun 2008

FireGL

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

868 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

448bit

111.1GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

24

320

Shading Units

192

16

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

28

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.01 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

11.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

-

440.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Board Design

159W

TDP

182W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

GT200

R600 V8600

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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