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Side-by-side comparison of specifications and performance

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Performance Comparison

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

30%
30%

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

333%
333%
AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition is approximately 303% faster

Technical Specifications

SpecificationNVIDIA GeForce GTX 260AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Graphics ProcessorDifferent
GT200
Tahiti
CoresDifferent
192
2048
TMUsDifferent
64
128
ROPsDifferent
28
32
Memory SizeDifferent
896 MB
3 GB
Memory TypeDifferent
GDDR3
GDDR5
Bus WidthDifferent
448 bit
384 bit

Graphics Processor

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 260AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
GPU NameDifferent
GT200
Tahiti
GPU VariantDifferent
G200-100-A2
Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
ArchitectureDifferent
Tesla 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process SizeDifferent
65 nm
28 nm
TransistorsDifferent
1,400 million
4,313 million
DensityDifferent
2.4M / mm²
12.3M / mm²
Die SizeDifferent
576 mm²
352 mm²
Chip PackageDifferent
BGA-2236
N/A

Graphics Card

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 260AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Release DateDifferent
Jun 16th, 2008
Jun 22nd, 2012
GenerationDifferent
GeForce 200
Southern Islands(HD 7900)
PredecessorDifferent
GeForce 9
Northern Islands
SuccessorDifferent
GeForce 400
Sea Islands
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Launch PriceDifferent
449 USD
499 USD
Bus InterfaceDifferent
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
ReviewsDifferent
137 in our database
191 in our database

Clock Speeds

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 260AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
GPU ClockDifferent
576 MHz
N/A
Shader ClockDifferent
1242 MHz
N/A
Memory ClockDifferent
999 MHz1998 Mbps effective
1500 MHz6 Gbps effective
Base ClockDifferent
N/A
1000 MHz
Boost ClockDifferent
N/A
1050 MHz

Memory

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 260AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Memory SizeDifferent
896 MB
3 GB
Memory TypeDifferent
GDDR3
GDDR5
Memory BusDifferent
448 bit
384 bit
BandwidthDifferent
111.9 GB/s
288.0 GB/s

Render Config

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 260AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Shading UnitsDifferent
192
2048
TMUsDifferent
64
128
ROPsDifferent
28
32
SM CountDifferent
24
N/A
L2 CacheDifferent
224 KB
768 KB
Compute UnitsDifferent
N/A
32
L1 CacheDifferent
N/A
16 KB (per CU)

Theoretical Performance

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 260AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Pixel RateDifferent
16.13 GPixel/s
33.60 GPixel/s
Texture RateDifferent
36.86 GTexel/s
134.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)Different
476.9 GFLOPS
4.301 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)Different
59.62 GFLOPS (1:8)
1,075.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

Board Design

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 260AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
LengthDifferent
267 mm10.5 inches
275 mm10.8 inches
TDPDifferent
182 W
300 W
Suggested PSUDifferent
450 W
700 W
OutputsDifferent
2x DVI1x S-Video
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power ConnectorsDifferent
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Board NumberDifferent
P651 SKU 4, P897 SKU 53, P897 SKU 54
109-C38637-00
HeightDifferent
N/A
111 mm4.4 inches
WidthDifferent
N/A
38 mm1.5 inches

Graphics Features

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 260AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
DirectXDifferent
11.1 (10_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGLDifferent
3.3
4.6
OpenCLDifferent
1.1
2.1 (1.2)
VulkanDifferent
N/A
1.2.170
CUDADifferent
1.3
N/A
Shader ModelDifferent
4.0
6.5 (5.1)

Comparison Summary

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