AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon 540

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 182W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (1792GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.9GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540 +118%

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

0.415 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Dec 2009

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1792MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

32bit

Memory Bus

448bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

112.9GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

24

384

Shading Units

192

24

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

28

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.50 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.15 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

414.7 GFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.84 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

182W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GT200B

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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