AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

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AMD Radeon R7 260X NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 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 160W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1680MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 +227%

6.451 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R7 260X

1476

GeForce RTX 2060 +407%

7486

Radeon R7 260X

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GeForce RTX 2060

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jan 2019

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1365 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1680 MHz

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

1920

56

TMUs

120

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.451 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

TU106

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

TU106-200A-KA-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

160W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

7.5

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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