GeForce GTX 260 and Radeon 7000 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 260 vs Radeon 7000
GeForce GTX 260
1260
Radeon 7000
2
GeForce GTX 260
Radeon 7000
Architecture
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
Rage 6 (2000−2007)
GPU code name
GT200
RV100
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2008
February 2001
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
576 MHz
183 MHz
CUDA cores
192
-
Floating-point performance
476.9 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
180 nm
Number of transistors
1,400 million
30 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
-
Power consumption (TDP)
182 Watt
23 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
36.9 billion/sec
0.55
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
896 MB
32 MB
Memory bus width
448 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
999 MHz
366 MHz
Memory bandwidth
111.9 GB/s
2.928 GB/s
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVIHDTV
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
7.0
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
1.3
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A