NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs AMD Radeon R7 260

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 AMD Radeon R7 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Boost Clock1058MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Lower TDP (95W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 +111%

3.25 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

VS

Radeon R7 260

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 600

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

-

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

1536

Shading Units

768

128

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Bonaire

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

195W

TDP

95W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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