AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 768GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)
432 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (95W vs 160W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R7 260
+69%
1.536 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 460
0.907 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2013
Release Date
Jul 2010
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
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1500 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
768MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
86.40GB/s
Render Config
12
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
7
768
Shading Units
336
48
TMUs
56
16
ROPs
24
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-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
384 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
16.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.450 GPixel/s
48.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
37.80 GTexel/s
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-
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1.536 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
907.2 GFLOPS
96.00 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.60 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
160W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Bonaire
GPU Name
GF104
Bonaire PRO
GPU Variant
GF104-300-KB-A1
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.08 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
160 mm²
Die Size
332 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
6.3
Shader Model
5.1
