AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 112.9GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (127W vs 182W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (1792GB vs 1024GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 +258%

1.488 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

0.415 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Dec 2009

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1792MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.9GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

24

960

Shading Units

192

48

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

28

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.50 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.15 GTexel/s

-

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

414.7 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

51.84 GFLOPS

Board Design

127W

TDP

182W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GT200B

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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