NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +1100%

5.728 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

VS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 200

Generation

Radeon Pro GCN

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

24

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

192

Shading Units

2304

64

TMUs

144

28

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.78 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.728 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.728 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

358.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

Ellesmere

G200-103-B3

GPU Variant

Ellesmere Gemini GL

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

55 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

182W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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