NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 3870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

ATI Radeon HD 3870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 OEM and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (1792GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.9GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 3870 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (106W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

0.415 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 +19%

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 3870

Graphics Card

Dec 2009

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 200

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

1792MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR4

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.9GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

320

64

TMUs

16

28

ROPs

16

-

224 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

33.15 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

414.7 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

51.84 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

106W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

RV670

G200-103-B2

GPU Variant

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

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

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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