NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1792GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 112.9GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

0.415 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT +621%

2.995 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Dec 2009

Release Date

Nov 2012

GeForce 200

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

925 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1792MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.9GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

1536

64

TMUs

96

28

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

33.15 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

-

414.7 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

51.84 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

185W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

Tahiti

G200-103-B2

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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