AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 768MB VRAM GeForce 8800 Ultra to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (95W vs 171W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (103.7GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260 +296%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

0.387 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

VS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

May 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1080 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

103.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

128

48

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

96 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.69 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.17 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

387.1 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

G80

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

G80-450-A3

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.681 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

484 mm²

Board Design

95W

TDP

171W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1 (1.0)

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.0

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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