GeForce GTX 260 and Radeon HD 6570M Mac Edition - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 260
Radeon HD 6570M Mac Edition
Architecture
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GT200
Capilano
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2008
October 2009
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
576 MHz
600 MHz
CUDA cores
192
-
Floating-point performance
476.9 gflops
480.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,400 million
627 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
400
Power consumption (TDP)
182 Watt
30 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
36.9 billion/sec
12.00
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
896 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
448 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
999 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
111.9 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVIHDTV
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A