NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XTX 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

More VRAM (896GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (171W vs 240W)

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX 's Advantages

104 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 +12%

0.536 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

0.476 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

VS

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

Graphics Card

Nov 2008

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 200

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

448bit

Memory Bus

512bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

106.0GB/s

Render Config

27

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

216

Shading Units

320

72

TMUs

16

28

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

224 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.89 GPixel/s

41.47 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.89 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

536.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

475.5 GFLOPS

67.07 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

R600

G200-103-B2

GPU Variant

R600 XTX A11 (215RGMDKA11FG)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Board Design

171W

TDP

240W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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