NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (171W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1832 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

0.536 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM +664%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

VS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2008

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 200

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

950 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

384bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

27

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

216

Shading Units

2048

72

TMUs

128

28

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

41.47 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

536.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

67.07 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

Malta

G200-103-B2

GPU Variant

Malta XT (215-0849026)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

365 mm²

Board Design

171W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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