NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

More VRAM (896GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 52.99GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP 's Advantages

104 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 +25%

0.536 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 AGP

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

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Radeon HD 3850 AGP

Graphics Card

Sep 2008

Release Date

Jan 2008

GeForce 200

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

52.99GB/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

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

GT200

GPU Name

RV670

G200-103-A2

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

182W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-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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