NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

More VRAM (896GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

608 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition +151%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

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Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jan 2009

GeForce 200

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

24

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

192

Shading Units

800

64

TMUs

40

28

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

RV770

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Board Design

182W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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