AMD Radeon HD 6930 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6930

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6930 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6930 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1064 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 186W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6930 +258%

1.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

0.536 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6930

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Sep 2008

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

27

1280

Shading Units

216

80

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

28

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

60.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

-

1.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

480.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Board Design

186W

TDP

182W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GT200

Cayman CE (215-0807105)

GPU Variant

G200-103-A2

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

576 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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