GeForce GTX 260 and Radeon HD 4700 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 260
Radeon HD 4700
Architecture
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
GT200
RV730
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2008
February 2010
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-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
55 nm
Number of transistors
1,400 million
514 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
320
Power consumption (TDP)
182 Watt
50 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
36.9 billion/sec
19.20
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
896 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
448 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
999 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
111.9 GB/s
12.8 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)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A