GeForce GTX 260 vs 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6870
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 260 | | Radeon HD 6870 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GT200 (G200-100-A2) | vs | Barts (Barts XT) |
| Fab Process | 65 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 576 mm² | vs | 255 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,400 million | vs | 1,700 million |
| Shaders | 192 | vs | 1120 |
| Compute Units | 8 | vs | 14 |
| Core clock | 576 MHz | vs | 900 MHz |
| ROPs | 28 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 64 | vs | 56 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 260 | | Radeon HD 6870 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 448 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 999 MHz
1998 MHz effective | vs | 1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 896 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 260 | | Radeon HD 6870 | |
|---|
| TDP | 182 watts | vs | 151 watts |
| Release Date | 16 Jun 2008 | vs | 21 Oct 2010 |
GeForce GTX 260
16.10 GP/s
Radeon HD 6870
28.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 260
36.90 GT/s
Radeon HD 6870
50.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 260
112.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 6870
134.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 260
476.90 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 6870
2016.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better