GeForce GTX 260 and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 260 vs Radeon R5 230
GeForce GTX 260
1260
Radeon R5 230
228
GeForce GTX 260
Radeon R5 230
Architecture
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GT200
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2008
April 2014
Bus support
-
PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
N/A
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
576 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
19 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
36.9 billion/sec
5.000
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
896 MB
4 GB
Memory bus width
448 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
999 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
111.9 GB/s
10.67 GB/s
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVIHDTV
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Multi monitor support
+
-
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-