GeForce GTX 780 vs Radeon R9 260 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

Boost Clock902MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Lower TDP (85W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780 +110%

4156

Radeon R9 260 OEM

1971

GeForce GTX 780

VS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 700

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

863 MHz

Base Clock

-

902 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

2304

Shading Units

896

192

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

16

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

85W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK110

GPU Name

Bonaire

GK110-300-A1

GPU Variant

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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