NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs ATI Radeon X1700 SE

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

ATI Radeon X1700 SE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1700 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

More VRAM (896GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1700 SE 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 182W)

Score

GeForce GTX 260

VS

Radeon X1700 SE

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Nov 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

500 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

448bit

Memory Bus

128bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

-

64

TMUs

8

28

ROPs

8

-

224 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

182W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

RV560

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

RV560 SE

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

230 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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