NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs ATI Radeon HD 3870

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 and ATI Radeon HD 3870 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

• Videocard is newer: launch date 6 month(s) later
• Around 60% higher core clock speed: 1242 MHz vs 777 MHz
• 3x more texture fill rate: 36.9 billion / sec vs 12.43 GTexel / s
• Around 75% higher maximum memory size: 896 MB vs 512 MB
• 2.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1224 vs 555
• Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 59 vs 58
• Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3342 vs 3131
• Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3342 vs 3131

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3870

• Around 67% higher pipelines: 320 vs 192
• Around 4% better floating-point performance: 497.3 gflops vs 476.9 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm
• Around 72% lower typical power consumption: 106 Watt vs 182 Watt
• 2.3x more memory clock speed: 2252 MHz vs 999 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 3870

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1224 555
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	59 58
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3342 3131
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3342 3131

Compare specifications (specs)