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AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
384 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1379MHz
Lower TDP (20W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Radeon R7 260 +45%
1.536 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1.059 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Dec 2013
Release Date
Mar 2018
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
1152 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1379 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz

Memory

2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR4
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
16.80GB/s

Render Config

12
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
3
768
Shading Units
384
48
TMUs
24
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
22.06 GPixel/s
48.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.10 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.55 GFLOPS
1.536 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1059 GFLOPS
96.00 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
33.10 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W
TDP
20W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

Bonaire
GPU Name
GP108
Bonaire PRO
GPU Variant
GP108-310-A1
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
2.08 billion
Transistors
1.8 billion
160 mm²
Die Size
74 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
6.3
Shader Model
6.4
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