Radeon HD 5850 and GeForce GTX 260 OEM - video card comparison

Radeon HD 5850

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GPU code name

Cypress

GT200B

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

September 2009

December 2009

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

Core clock speed

725 MHz

518 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,088.0 gflops

414.7 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

55 nm

Number of transistors

2,154 million

1,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1440

192

Power consumption (TDP)

151 Watt

182 Watt

Texture fill rate

52.20

33.15

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

1792 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

448 Bit

Memory clock speed

2000 MHz

2016 MHz

Memory bandwidth

128.0 GB/s

112.9 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

HDMI

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

11.1 (10_0)

CUDA

1.3

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.4

3.3

Shader Model

5.0

4.0

Vulkan

N/A