AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

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AMD Radeon R7 260X NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 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 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1815MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (495.9GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +465%

11.15 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R7 260X

1476

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +682%

11549

Radeon R7 260X

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GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jul 2019

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1650 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1815 MHz

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1937 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

495.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

48

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

3072

56

TMUs

192

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

384

-

RT Cores

48

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

116.2 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

348.5 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

22.30 TFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.15 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

348.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

TU104

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

TU104-450-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 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

-

CUDA

7.5

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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