NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8470 OEM 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 25.60GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

Lower TDP (35W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 +92%

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8470 OEM

0.248 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

Radeon HD 8470 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 200

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

64bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

160

64

TMUs

8

28

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.100 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.200 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

248.0 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

182W

TDP

35W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Caicos

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

Caicos XT (215-0804070)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

67 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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