NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X +463%

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

VS

Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 200

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

28

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

180W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

Curacao

G200-103-B3

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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