NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 vs AMD Radeon HD 6790

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 AMD Radeon HD 6790

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6790 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

584 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

0.536 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790 +150%

1.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

VS

Radeon HD 6790

Graphics Card

Sep 2008

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 200

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

27

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

216

Shading Units

800

72

TMUs

40

28

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.44 GPixel/s

41.47 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

536.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1344 GFLOPS

67.07 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Barts

G200-103-A2

GPU Variant

Barts LE (215-0798002)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

182W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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