Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs GeForce GTX 260

Radeon HD 4870 X2
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Aug 2008
Radeon HD 4870 X2
GeForce GTX 260
Memory: 896Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Jun 2008
GeForce GTX 260

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4870 X2

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

104 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 4870 X2 .
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Radeon HD 4870 X2

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 4870 X2

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4870 X2GeForce GTX 260
GPU NameR700 (R700 XT)vsGT200 (G200-100-A2)
Fab Process55 nmvs65 nm
Die Size256 mm²vs576 mm²
Transistors956 millionvs1,400 million
Shaders800vs192
Compute Units10vs8
Core clock700 MHzvs576 MHz
ROPs16vs28
TMUs40vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4870 X2GeForce GTX 260
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width256 bit x2vs448 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
3600 MHz effective
vs999 MHz
1998 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs896 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4870 X2GeForce GTX 260
TDP286 wattsvs182 watts
Release Date12 Aug 2008vs16 Jun 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4870 X2
    22.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 260
    16.10 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4870 X2
    56.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 260
    36.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4870 X2
    230.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 260
    112.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4870 X2
    2240.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 260
    476.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better