Radeon R9 295X2 vs GeForce GTX 260
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 896GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)
2624 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages
Lower TDP (182W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+1101%
5733
GeForce GTX 260
477
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Jun 2008
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
999 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
896MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
448bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
111.9GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
24
2816
Shading Units
192
176
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
28
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
224 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.13 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
36.86 GTexel/s
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
476.9 GFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
59.62 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
182W
900 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
GT200
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
G200-100-A2
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
576 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.3
6.3
Shader Model
4.0