NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M vs ATI Radeon HD 4870

What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M and ATI Radeon HD 4870. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

Graphics Processor (GPU)

G92GPU NameRV770
N10E-GTModel numberRV770 XT
(215-0669049)
TeslaArchitectureTeraScale
TSMCFoundryTSMC
65 nmProcess Size55 nm
754 millionTransistors956 million
324 mm²Die Size256 mm²

Graphics Card

Mar 3rd, 2009Release DateJun 25th, 2008
GeForce 200MFamilyRadeon R700
(HD 4800)
End-of-lifeProductionEnd-of-life
GeForce 100MPredecessorRadeon R600
PCIe 2.0 x16Bus InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16

Memory

1024 MBMemory Size512 MB
GDDR3Memory TypeGDDR5
256 bitMemory Bus256 bit
60.80 GB/sBandwidth115.2 GB/s

Performance

8.800 GPixel/sPixel fillrate12.00 GPixel/s
30.80 GTexel/sTexture fillrate30.00 GTexel/s
308.0 GFLOPSFP32 (float) performance1,200 GFLOPS

Clock Speeds

950 MHz
1900 Mbps effective
Memory Clock900 MHz
3.6 Gbps effective
550 MHzGPU Clock750 MHz

Render Config

112Shading Units800
56TMUs40
16ROPs16
64 KBL2 Cache256 KB

Board Design

65 WThermal design power (TDP)150 W
No outputsDisplay Connectors2x DVI
1x S-Video

API support

11.1 (10_0)DirectX10.1 (10_1)
3.3OpenGL3.3
1.1OpenCL1.1
N/AVulkanN/A
4.0Shader Model4.1