NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (171W vs 294W)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

0.536 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +332%

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Nov 2008

Release Date

Nov 2009

GeForce 200

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

27

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

216

Shading Units

1600

72

TMUs

80

28

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

41.47 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

536.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

67.07 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

Hemlock

G200-103-B2

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

171W

TDP

294W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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