AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)
832 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (105W vs 115W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R7 260X
+1131%
1.971 TFLOPS
GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition
0.16 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Jan 2008
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-HE
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1625 MHz
Memory Clock
799 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
104.0GB/s
Bandwidth
51.14GB/s
Render Config
14
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
896
Shading Units
64
56
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
17.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.000 GPixel/s
61.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
16.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1.971 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
160.0 GFLOPS
123.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
115W
TDP
105W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Bonaire
GPU Name
G92
Bonaire XTX
(215-0839097)
GPU Variant
-
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
