NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs ATI Radeon HD 5570

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

ATI Radeon HD 5570

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5570 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 16.00GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 5570 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (39W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 +14%

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5570

0.416 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

Radeon HD 5570

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Oct 2011

GeForce 200

Generation

Evergreen

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

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

448bit

Memory Bus

128bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

320

64

TMUs

16

28

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.40 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

416.0 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

182W

TDP

39W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Turks

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

Turks LE

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

118 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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