NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP 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)

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 112.9GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (151W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

0.415 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition +403%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 2009

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 200

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1792MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.9GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

18

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

1440

64

TMUs

72

28

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

33.15 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

-

414.7 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

51.84 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

151W

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 Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

Cypress

G200-103-B2

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

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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