GeForce GTX 260 and Radeon HD 2900 PRO - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 260 vs Radeon HD 2900 PRO
GeForce GTX 260
1260
Radeon HD 2900 PRO
646
GeForce GTX 260
Radeon HD 2900 PRO
Architecture
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
GT200
R600
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2008
December 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
576 MHz
600 MHz
CUDA cores
192
-
Floating-point performance
476.9 gflops
384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
1,400 million
720 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
320
Power consumption (TDP)
182 Watt
200 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
36.9 billion/sec
9.600
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
896 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
448 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
999 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
111.9 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVIHDTV
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.0 (10_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A