GeForce GTX 260 and Radeon HD 2900 XTX - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 260

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

TeraScale (2005−2013)

GPU code name

GT200

R600

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

June 2008

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

2x 6-pin

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

576 MHz

743 MHz

CUDA cores

192

-

Floating-point performance

476.9 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

240 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

36.9 billion/sec

11.89

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

896 MB

512 MB

Memory bus width

448 Bit

512 Bit

Memory clock speed

999 MHz

1656 MBps

Memory bandwidth

111.9 GB/s

106.0 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 (full) Shader Model4.04.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A