NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs ATI Radeon HD 5830

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

ATI Radeon HD 5830

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5830 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5830 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5830 +275%

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

Radeon HD 5830

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Feb 2010

GeForce 200

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

1120

64

TMUs

56

28

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.80 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.792 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

358.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Cypress

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

Cypress LE (215-0735047)

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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