AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 150W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
Released 5 years late
Boost Clock1683MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R7 260
1.536 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+320%
6.463 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2013
Release Date
Dec 2018
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1506 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1683 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5X
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
Render Config
12
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
15
768
Shading Units
1920
48
TMUs
120
16
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
16.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
107.7 GPixel/s
48.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
202.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
101.0 GFLOPS
1.536 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.463 TFLOPS
96.00 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
202.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
150W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Bonaire
GPU Name
GP104
Bonaire PRO
GPU Variant
GP104-200-A1
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
16 nm
2.08 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
160 mm²
Die Size
314 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
