NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs AMD FirePro V5900

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

AMD FirePro V5900

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 2GB VRAM FirePro V5900 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 64.00GB/s)

AMD FirePro V5900 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 896GB)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

FirePro V5900 +28%

0.614 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

FirePro V5900

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

May 2011

GeForce 200

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

512

64

TMUs

32

28

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.20 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

614.4 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Cayman

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

Cayman LE WS

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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