NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2 +466%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

VS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 200

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

1536

64

TMUs

96

28

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

182W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

Antilles

G200-103-B3

GPU Variant

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

389 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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