NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 vs ATI Radeon X1600

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 ATI Radeon X1600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1600 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 1 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (896GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

216 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 171W)

Score

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

VS

Radeon X1600

Graphics Card

Nov 2008

Release Date

Jan 2007

GeForce 200

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

448bit

Memory Bus

128bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

27

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

216

Shading Units

-

72

TMUs

4

28

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

224 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.540 GPixel/s

41.47 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.540 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

536.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

67.07 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

RV516

G200-103-B2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

55 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Board Design

171W

TDP

27W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3

OpenGL

2.1

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

3.0

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