AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

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AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 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 7870 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

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

1088 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition +436%

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

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

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

24

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

192

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GT200

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

182W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x 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 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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