Radeon HD 8670 vs GeForce GTX 260 |
Released January, 2013
AMD Radeon HD 8670
- 1 GHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
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Released December, 2009
Nvidia GeForce GTX 260
- 518 MHz
- 1.8 GB GDDR3
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Significantly higher clock speed | 1,000 MHz | vs | 518 MHz | Around 95% higher clock speed | |||
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| Much higher effective memory clock speed | 4,600 MHz | vs | 2,016 MHz | More than 2.2x higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Slightly more shading units | 384 | vs | 192 | Twice as many shading units | |||
| Higher memory clock speed | 1,150 MHz | vs | 1,008 MHz | Around 15% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Much lower TDP | 75W | vs | 182W | 2.4x lower TDP | |||
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| Higher memory bandwidth | 112.9 GB/s | vs | 73.6 GB/s | Around 55% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Much wider memory bus | 448 bit | vs | 128 bit | 3.5x wider memory bus | |||
| Significantly more render output processors | 28 | vs | 8 | 20 more render output processors | |||
| More texture mapping units | 64 | vs | 24 | 40 more texture mapping units | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon HD 8670 vs GeForce GTX 260
Cloud Gate Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Features Key features of the Radeon HD 8670 vs GeForce GTX 260
memory bandwidth Rate at which data can be read from or stored in onboard memory
pixel rate Number of pixels a graphics card can render to the screen every second
texture rate Speed at which a graphics card can perform texture mapping
floating point performance How fast the gpu can crunch numbers
shading units Subcomponents of the gpu, these run in parallel to enable fast pixel shading
texture mapping units Built into each gpu, these resize and rotate bitmaps for texturing scenes
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