NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 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 and 1 months late

More VRAM (896GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (182W vs 215W)

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 200

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

448bit

Memory Bus

512bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

106.0GB/s

Render Config

24

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

192

Shading Units

320

64

TMUs

16

28

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

224 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.89 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.89 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

475.5 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

R600

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Board Design

182W

TDP

215W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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