GeForce GTX 260 vs Radeon HD 5850

[Sirens]

I am going to build the new desktop computer system for myself basically for the gaming purpose. I want to select the graphic card for this desktop computer system. I have selected the GeForce GTX 260 and Radeon HD 5850 graphic card and want to know that which graphic card is better from these two. So provide me the details of both of these graphic card as soon as possible.

[Bindusar]

You want to build the new desktop for yourself in the next few days. You want the desktop basically for the gaming purpose and you want to select the good graphic card for the desktop. You have selected the graphic cards but not able to make decision for getting one of them for the desktop. You have selected the GeForce GTX 260 and Radeon HD 5850 graphic card. I think you should go for the Radeon HD 5850 graphic card because this has the Microsoft DirectX 11 support as compared to the GeForce GTX 260 which has the Microsoft DirectX 10 support.

[Chandranath]

Features of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 graphic card.

• 2nd Generation NVIDIA Unified Architecture
• NVIDIA PhysX-Ready
• 3-way NVIDIA SLI Technology
• NVIDIA CUDA Technology
• NVIDIA PureVideo HD Technology
• NVIDIA HybridPower Technology

[CACTUS101]

Technical specification of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 graphic card.
GPU Engine Specs:

• CUDA Cores -192
• Graphics Clock (MHz)-576 MHz
• Processor Clock (MHz) -1242 MHz
• Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec)- 36.9

Memory Specs:

• Memory Clock (MHz)- 999
• Standard Memory Config -896 MB
• Memory Interface Width -448-bit
• Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec)- 111.9

Display Support:

• Maximum Digital Resolution- 2560x1600
• Maximum VGA Resolution- 2048x1536
• Standard Display Connectors- Dual Link DVI
• HDTV
• Multi Monitor- yes
• HDCP -yes
• HDMI -Via adapter
• Audio Input for HDMI- SPDIF

[CAILYN]

Features and benefits of the ATI Radeon HD 5850 Graphics card.

1. Get unrivalled visual quality and intense gaming performance and for today and tomorrow with support for Microsoft DirectX 11
2. With ATI Eyefinity technology get the ultimate immersive gaming experience innovative ‘wrap around’ multi-display capabilities
3. Tap into the massive parallel processing power of your GPU with ATI Stream technology and tackle demanding tasks like video transcoding with incredible speed
4. Feel the brute strength of more than 2 teraFLOPS plowing through the most demanding games
5. Experience the speed, responsiveness and performance of ultra-high bandwidth GDDR5 memory
6. ATI CrossFireX technology with multi-GPU support offers advanced scalability

[xanix]

Technical specification of the ATI Radeon HD 5850 graphic card.

• 2.15 billion 40nm transistors
• TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
• GDDR5 interface with 128.0 GB/sec of memory bandwidth
• PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
• DirectX 11 support
• OpenGL 3.2 support1
• Image quality enhancement technology
• ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU technology
• ATI Avivo HD Video & Display technology