NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (85W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM +313%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

VS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 200

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

128bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

24

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

192

Shading Units

896

64

TMUs

56

28

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

Bonaire

G200-103-B3

GPU Variant

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

182W

TDP

85W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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