AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

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AMD Radeon R7 260X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 96.19GB/s)

560 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X +88%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2

1.046 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

VS

GeForce GTX 460 v2

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Sep 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.19GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

7

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

336

56

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.91 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.62 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1046 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

87.19 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GF114

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

160W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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

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