AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (95W vs 197W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R7 260
+300%
1.536 TFLOPS
GeForce 9800 GX2
0.384 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2013
Release Date
Mar 2008
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
12
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
16
768
Shading Units
128
48
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
16.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
48.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1.536 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
384.0 GFLOPS
96.00 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
197W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Bonaire
GPU Name
G92
Bonaire PRO
GPU Variant
G92-450-A2
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
2.08 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
160 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.3
Shader Model
4.0
