NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 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 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +801%

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

VS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 200

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

384bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

2048

64

TMUs

128

28

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

Tahiti

G200-103-B3

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

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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