Radeon HD 6930 and GeForce GTX 260 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6930
GeForce GTX 260
Architecture
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
Cayman
GT200
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2011
June 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
750 MHz
576 MHz
CUDA cores
-
192
Floating-point performance
1,920.0 gflops
476.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
1,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
192
Power consumption (TDP)
186 Watt
182 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
60.00
36.9 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
896 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
448 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
999 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
111.9 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Dual Link DVIHDTV
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
S/PDIF
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
2.1
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A