ATI FireGL V3600 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages
Lower TDP (73W vs 182W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages
Released 1 years late
More VRAM (896GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
72 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V3600
0.144 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 260
+231%
0.477 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2007
Release Date
Jun 2008
FireGL
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
500 MHz
Memory Clock
999 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
896MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
448bit
16.00GB/s
Bandwidth
111.9GB/s
Render Config
3
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
24
120
Shading Units
192
8
TMUs
64
4
ROPs
28
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
224 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.13 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
36.86 GTexel/s
-
-
-
144.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
476.9 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
59.62 GFLOPS
Board Design
73W
TDP
182W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV630
GPU Name
GT200
RV630 GL
GPU Variant
G200-100-A2
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.39 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
576 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.3
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
