AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

VS

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Lower TDP (85W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Boost Clock1058MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 260 OEM

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 +64%

3.25 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Mar 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1006 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

1536

56

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GK104

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

85W

TDP

195W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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