NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon R7 260
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
Released 5 years late
Boost Clock1683MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+320%
6.463 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 260
1.536 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2018
Release Date
Dec 2013
GeForce 10
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
-
1683 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1001 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
256.3GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
15
SM Count
-
1920
Shading Units
768
120
TMUs
48
64
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
107.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.00 GPixel/s
202.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
48.00 GTexel/s
101.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.463 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
202.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
96.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
95W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
Bonaire
GP104-200-A1
GPU Variant
Bonaire PRO
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
28 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.3
