NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM +436%

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

VS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 200

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

28

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

175W

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

Pitcairn

G200-103-B3

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

212 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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