NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs AMD Radeon HD 6670

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 AMD Radeon HD 6670

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6670 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 64.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6670 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (66W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6670 +61%

0.768 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

Radeon HD 6670

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 200

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

128bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

24

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

192

Shading Units

480

64

TMUs

24

28

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.400 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

768.0 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Turks

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

Turks XT (215-0803000)

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

Board Design

182W

TDP

66W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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