AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages
Lower TDP (115W vs 165W)
NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1440MHz
More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)
2688 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R7 260X
1.971 TFLOPS
A30 PCIe
+423%
10.32 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Apr 2021
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Tesla Ampere
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
930 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1440 MHz
1625 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2e
128bit
Memory Bus
3072bit
104.0GB/s
Bandwidth
933.1GB/s
Render Config
14
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
56
896
Shading Units
3584
56
TMUs
224
16
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
224
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
24 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
17.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
138.2 GPixel/s
61.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
322.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
10.32 TFLOPS
1.971 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
10.32 TFLOPS
123.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
5.161 TFLOPS
Board Design
115W
TDP
165W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
Bonaire
GPU Name
GA100
Bonaire XTX
(215-0839097)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
7 nm
2.08 billion
Transistors
54.2 billion
160 mm²
Die Size
826 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
8.0
6.3
Shader Model
N/A
