GeForce GTX 260 and Radeon HD 7450 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 260
Radeon HD 7450 OEM
Architecture
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GT200
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2008
January 2012
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
576 MHz
625 MHz
CUDA cores
192
-
Floating-point performance
476.9 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,400 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
160
Power consumption (TDP)
182 Watt
18 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
36.9 billion/sec
5.000
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
896 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
448 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
999 MHz
1066 MHz
Memory bandwidth
111.9 GB/s
8.528 GB/s
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVIHDTV
1x DVI, 1x HDMI
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