AMD Radeon HD 7730 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7730 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7730 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7730 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (47W vs 182W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7730 +28%

0.614 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7730

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jun 2008

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

448bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

24

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

192

24

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

614.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

38.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GT200

Cape Verde LE

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

47W

TDP

182W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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