NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs AMD FireStream 9370

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

AMD FireStream 9370

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 4GB VRAM FireStream 9370 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 225W)

AMD FireStream 9370 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (147.2GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

FireStream 9370 +453%

2.64 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

FireStream 9370

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jun 2010

GeForce 200

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

147.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

1600

64

TMUs

80

28

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 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

66.00 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.640 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

528.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

225W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.1

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Cypress

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

Cypress XT GL

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

334 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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