NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

AMD Radeon R7 260X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1733MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (115W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +350%

8.873 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1080 +410%

7536

Radeon R7 260X

1476

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

Radeon R7 260X

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

-

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

896

160

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

115W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Bonaire

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

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

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