GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 and Radeon HD 5950 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Radeon HD 5950

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

GT200

Hemlock

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

September 2008

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Core clock speed

576 MHz

725 MHz

Floating-point performance

536.5 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

2,154 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

216

1440

Power consumption (TDP)

182 Watt

302 Watt

Texture fill rate

41.47

52.20

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

896 MB

1 GB

Memory bus width

448 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1998 MHz

4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

111.9 GB/s

128.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.3a, 1x DisplayPort 1.1

HDMI

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

11.2 (11_0)

CUDA

1.3

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

3.3

4.4

Shader Model

4.0

5.0

Vulkan

N/A