Radeon HD 5870 and GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 5870
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
Cypress
GT200B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2009
November 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Core clock speed
850 MHz
576 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,720.0 gflops
536.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
1,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
216
Power consumption (TDP)
188 Watt
171 Watt
Texture fill rate
68.00
41.47
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
896 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
448 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
1998 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
111.9 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
N/A