ATI Radeon HD 4860 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4860

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4860 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4860 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 182W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 's Advantages

More VRAM (896GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4860 +87%

0.896 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4860

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Jul 2008

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

24

640

Shading Units

192

32

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

28

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

-

896.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

179.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

182W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV790

GPU Name

GT200B

RV790 GT

GPU Variant

G200-103-B3

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.959 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

282 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

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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