NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs ATI Radeon X1550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

ATI Radeon X1550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (896GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 182W)

Score

GeForce GTX 260

VS

Radeon X1550

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jan 2007

GeForce 200

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

448bit

Memory Bus

128bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

-

64

TMUs

4

28

ROPs

4

-

224 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.200 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.200 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

182W

TDP

27W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

RV516

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

65 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3

OpenGL

2.1

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

3.0

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