AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

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AMD Radeon R7 260 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (95W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260 +296%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250

0.387 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

VS

GeForce GTS 250

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Mar 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

128

48

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.23 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.93 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

387.1 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

G92B

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

G92-428-B1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Board Design

95W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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