GeForce GTX 260 vs Radeon HD 6870

GeForce GTX 260
Memory: 896Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Jun 2008
GeForce GTX 260
Radeon HD 6870
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Oct 2010
Radeon HD 6870

Summary

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6870

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6870

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6870

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 260Radeon HD 6870
GPU NameGT200 (G200-100-A2)vsBarts (Barts XT)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size576 mm²vs255 mm²
Transistors1,400 millionvs1,700 million
Shaders192vs1120
Compute Units8vs14
Core clock576 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs28vs32
TMUs64vs56

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 260Radeon HD 6870
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width448 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed999 MHz
1998 MHz effective
vs1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective
Memory Size896 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 260Radeon HD 6870
TDP182 wattsvs151 watts
Release Date16 Jun 2008vs21 Oct 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 260
    16.10 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6870
    28.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 260
    36.90 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6870
    50.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 260
    112.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6870
    134.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 260
    476.90 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6870
    2016.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better