NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 vs ATI Radeon HD 3830

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 ATI Radeon HD 3830

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3830 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

Released 7 months late

More VRAM (896GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 26.50GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 3830 's Advantages

104 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 171W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 +25%

0.536 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3830

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

VS

Radeon HD 3830

Graphics Card

Nov 2008

Release Date

Apr 2008

GeForce 200

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

448bit

Memory Bus

128bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

26.50GB/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

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.69 GPixel/s

41.47 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.69 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

536.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

427.5 GFLOPS

67.07 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.50 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

RV670

G200-103-B2

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

171W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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