Radeon HD 5770 vs GeForce GTX 260
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5770 |
74 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 260 . |
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 5770
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5770 | | GeForce GTX 260 | |
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GPU Name | Juniper (Juniper XT) | vs | GT200 (G200-100-A2) |
Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 65 nm |
Die Size | 166 mm² | vs | 576 mm² |
Transistors | 1,040 million | vs | 1,400 million |
Shaders | 800 | vs | 192 |
Compute Units | 10 | vs | 8 |
Core clock | 850 MHz | vs | 576 MHz |
ROPs | 16 | vs | 28 |
TMUs | 40 | vs | 64 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5770 | | GeForce GTX 260 | |
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Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR3 |
Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 448 bit |
Memory Speed | 1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective | vs | 999 MHz
1998 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 896 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5770 | | GeForce GTX 260 | |
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TDP | 108 watts | vs | 182 watts |
Release Date | 13 Oct 2009 | vs | 16 Jun 2008 |
Radeon HD 5770
13.60 GP/s
GeForce GTX 260
16.10 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5770
34.00 GT/s
GeForce GTX 260
36.90 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5770
76.80 GB/s
GeForce GTX 260
112.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 5770
1360.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 260
476.90 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better