Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs GeForce GTX 260
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 896GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)
1408 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 260 Advantages
Lower TDP (182W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+470%
2720
GeForce GTX 260
477
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Jun 2008
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
24
1600
Shading Units
192
80
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
28
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
36.86 GTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
476.9 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
59.62 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
182W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
GT200
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
G200-100-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
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