ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

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ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4850 X2 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 's Advantages

608 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

More VRAM (896GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 63.68GB/s)

Lower TDP (182W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4850 X2 +109%

1 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4850 X2

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GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

Nov 2008

Release Date

Jun 2008

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

995 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

63.68GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

24

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

192

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

25.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1000 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

200.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

R700

GPU Name

GT200

R700 PRO (215-0669065)

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

182W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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