NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon 540

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 AMD Radeon 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 and 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

168 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 171W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

0.536 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540 +69%

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

VS

AMD Radeon 540

Graphics Card

Nov 2008

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 200

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

32bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

27

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

216

Shading Units

384

72

TMUs

24

28

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

41.47 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.39 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

908.5 GFLOPS

536.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

908.5 GFLOPS

67.07 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

56.78 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

Lexa

G200-103-B2

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

55 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

171W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.7

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