ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 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

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

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

1384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 +407%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

0.536 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

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GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Sep 2008

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 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

27

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

216

80

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GT200

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

G200-103-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

228W

TDP

182W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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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