Radeon E9173 PCIe vs GeForce GTX 260

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	759	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.16	no data
Power efficiency	1.20	no data
Architecture	Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name	GT200	Lexa
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	16 June 2008 (16 years ago)	3 October 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$449	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	192	512
Core clock speed	576 MHz	1124 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1219 MHz
Number of transistors	1,400 million	2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	182 Watt	35 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature	105 °C	no data
Texture fill rate	36.86	39.01
Floating-point processing power	0.4769 TFLOPS	1.248 TFLOPS
ROPs	28	16
TMUs	64	32

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	267 mm	no data
Height	4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	None
SLI options	+	-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	896 MB	2 GB
Memory bus width	448 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	999 MHz	1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth	111.9 GB/s	48 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	Dual Link DVIHDTV	1x DisplayPort, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Multi monitor support	+	no data
HDMI	+	-
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536	no data
Audio input for HDMI	S/PDIF	no data

API and SDK compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	4.0	6.4
OpenGL	2.1	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	2.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131
CUDA	+	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	16 June 2008	3 October 2017
Maximum RAM amount	896 MB	2 GB
Chip lithography	65 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	182 Watt	35 Watt

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