NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM and ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 37% lower typical power consumption: 182 Watt vs 250 Watt
Around 75% higher maximum memory size: 1792 MB vs 2x 512 MB
Around 1% higher memory clock speed: 2016 MHz vs 1990 MHz

Launch date	8 December 2009 vs 7 November 2008
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	182 Watt vs 250 Watt
Maximum memory size	1792 MB vs 2x 512 MB
Memory clock speed	2016 MHz vs 1990 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Around 21% higher core clock speed: 625 MHz vs 518 MHz
6.8x more texture fill rate: 2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 33.2 GTexel / s
8.3x more pipelines: 2x 800 vs 192
4.8x better floating-point performance: 2x 1,000.0 gflops vs 414.7 gflops

Core clock speed	625 MHz vs 518 MHz
Texture fill rate	2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 33.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2x 800 vs 192
Floating-point performance	2x 1,000.0 gflops vs 414.7 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM	ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark		1132
PassMark - G2D Mark		542

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM	ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	GT200B	R700
Launch date	8 December 2009	7 November 2008
Place in performance rating	not rated	275
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$420
Technical info
Core clock speed	518 MHz	625 MHz
Floating-point performance	414.7 gflops	2x 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	192	2x 800
Texture fill rate	33.2 GTexel / s	2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	182 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	1,400 million	956 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	4x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	267 mm	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1792 MB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	112.9 GB / s	2x 63.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	448 Bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2016 MHz	1990 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3