NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 256MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 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 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

72 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 +148%

0.477 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jun 2007

GeForce 200

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

448bit

Memory Bus

128bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/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

3.200 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

182W

TDP

45W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

RV630

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

-

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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