AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

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AMD Radeon R7 260X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

680 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 171W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X +267%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

0.536 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Nov 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

448bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

27

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

216

56

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GT200B

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

171W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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

1.3

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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