GeForce GTX 260 and Radeon HD 8570A - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 260

Radeon HD 8570A

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

GT200

Sun

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

June 2008

March 2013

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

MXM-A (3.0)

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

-

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

825 MHz

Core clock speed

576 MHz

750 MHz

CUDA cores

192

-

Floating-point performance

476.9 gflops

528.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

690 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

320

Power consumption (TDP)

182 Watt

-

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

36.9 billion/sec

16.50

Memory type

GDDR3

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

896 MB

1 GB

Memory bus width

448 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

999 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

111.9 GB/s

16 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)

12 (11_1)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131