NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 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 500W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1832 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

0.536 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2 +606%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

VS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

Nov 2008

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 200

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

384bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

27

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

216

Shading Units

2048

72

TMUs

128

28

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

41.47 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

536.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

67.07 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

New Zealand

G200-103-B2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

171W

TDP

500W

450 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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