AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2

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AMD Radeon R7 260X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

560 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 160W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X +109%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 X2

0.942 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

VS

GeForce GTX 460 X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Mar 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

7

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

336

56

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.814 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.26 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

941.5 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

78.46 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GF104

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

GF104-300-KB-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

160W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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