NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs AMD FirePro R5000

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

AMD FirePro R5000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 2GB VRAM FirePro R5000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

AMD FirePro R5000 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 896GB)

576 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

FirePro R5000 +165%

1.267 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

FirePro R5000

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Feb 2013

GeForce 200

Generation

FirePro Remote

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

768

64

TMUs

48

28

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Pitcairn

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

576 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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