Radeon HD 4870 vs GeForce GTX 260
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4870 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 260 |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
| PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 4870
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 4870 | | GeForce GTX 260 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | RV770 (RV770 PRO) | vs | GT200 (G200-100-A2) |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 65 nm |
| Die Size | 256 mm² | vs | 576 mm² |
| Transistors | 956 million | vs | 1,400 million |
| Shaders | 800 | vs | 192 |
| Compute Units | 10 | vs | 8 |
| Core clock | 750 MHz | vs | 576 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 28 |
| TMUs | 40 | vs | 64 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 4870 | | GeForce GTX 260 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 448 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
3600 MHz effective | vs | 999 MHz
1998 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 896 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 4870 | | GeForce GTX 260 | |
|---|
| TDP | 150 watts | vs | 182 watts |
| Release Date | 25 Jun 2008 | vs | 16 Jun 2008 |
Radeon HD 4870
12.00 GP/s
GeForce GTX 260
16.10 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4870
30.00 GT/s
GeForce GTX 260
36.90 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4870
115.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 260
112.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 4870
1200.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 260
476.90 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better