Radeon R7 260X vs GeForce GTX 660
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 1 months late
Lower TDP (115W vs 140W)
GeForce GTX 660 's Advantages
Boost Clock1032MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.2GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R7 260X
1971
GeForce GTX 660
1981
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R7 260X
+23%
1476
GeForce GTX 660
1194
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Sep 2012
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
980 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1032 MHz
1625 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
104.0GB/s
Bandwidth
144.2GB/s
Render Config
14
Compute Units
-
896
Shading Units
960
56
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
24
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
256 KB
L2 Cache
384 KB
Theoretical Performance
17.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
20.64 GPixel/s
61.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
82.56 GTexel/s
1.971 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.981 TFLOPS
123.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
82.56 GFLOPS
Board Design
115W
TDP
140W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Bonaire
GPU Name
GK106
Bonaire XTX
(215-0839097)
GPU Variant
GK106-400-A1
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.08 billion
Transistors
2.54 billion
160 mm²
Die Size
221 mm²
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
