NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon RX 470

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

AMD Radeon RX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470 +935%

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

VS

Radeon RX 470

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 200

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

926 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

2048

64

TMUs

128

28

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

Ellesmere

G200-103-B3

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

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

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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