NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 512MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

More VRAM (896GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)

72 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 +233%

0.477 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

0.143 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jun 2007

GeForce 200

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

448bit

Memory Bus

128bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

12.67GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

120

64

TMUs

8

28

ROPs

4

-

224 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.376 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.752 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

142.6 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

182W

TDP

35W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

RV630

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

RV630 PRO (215CDBBKA15FG)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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