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GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 vs Radeon HD 6850

Intro

The GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 features core clock speeds of 576 MHz on the GPU, and 999 MHz on the 896 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 216 SPUs along with 72 TAUs and 28 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 6850, which features a GPU core clock speed of 775 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 960 Stream Processors, 48 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6850 127 Watts
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 202 Watts
Difference: 75 Watts (59%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 6850 should in theory be just a bit better than the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6850 128000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 111888 MB/sec
Difference: 16112 (14%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 is a small bit (more or less 11%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6850. (explain)

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 41472 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6850 37200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 4272 (11%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6850 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 6850 24800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 16128 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 8672 (54%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Radeon HD 6850
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year September 16, 2008 October 2010
Code Name G200 Barts Pro
Memory 896 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 576 MHz 775 MHz
Memory Speed 1998 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 202 watts 127 watts
Bandwidth 111888 MB/sec 128000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 41472 Mtexels/sec 37200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 16128 Mpixels/sec 24800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 216 960
Texture Mapping Units 72 48
Render Output Units 28 32
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 448-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 40 nm
Transistors 1400 million 1700 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.1 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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