NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (1792GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (182W vs 228W)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 112.9GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

0.415 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition +555%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 2009

Release Date

Jun 2010

GeForce 200

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

1195 MHz

Memory

1792MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.9GB/s

Bandwidth

153.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

1600

64

TMUs

80

28

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

33.15 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

414.7 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

51.84 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

228W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

Cypress

G200-103-B2

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

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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