AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 650 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 's Advantages
Lower TDP (65W vs 115W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R7 260X
+142%
1.971 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 650
0.812 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Sep 2012
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1625 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
104.0GB/s
Bandwidth
80.00GB/s
Render Config
14
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
896
Shading Units
384
56
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
17.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.464 GPixel/s
61.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.86 GTexel/s
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-
-
1.971 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
812.5 GFLOPS
123.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
33.86 GFLOPS
Board Design
115W
TDP
65W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Bonaire
GPU Name
GK107
Bonaire XTX
(215-0839097)
GPU Variant
GK107-450-A2
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.08 billion
Transistors
1.27 billion
160 mm²
Die Size
118 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
3.0
6.3
Shader Model
5.1
