Radeon X600 and GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 - video card comparison
Radeon X600
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2
Architecture
Rage 9 (2003−2008)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
RV370
GT200B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2004
November 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Core clock speed
400 MHz
576 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
536.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
107 million
1,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
216
Power consumption (TDP)
36 Watt
171 Watt
Texture fill rate
1.600
41.47
Memory type
DDR
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
896 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
448 Bit
Memory clock speed
500 MHz
1998 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8 GB/s
111.9 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.3
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
2.0
3.3
Shader Model
-
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A