AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM and 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (85W vs 165W)

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 260 OEM

1.971 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe +423%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

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A30 PCIe

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Apr 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Tesla Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

930 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

128bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

56

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

3584

56

TMUs

224

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GA100

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

85W

TDP

165W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

6.3

Shader Model

N/A

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