NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs AMD Radeon 540

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

AMD Radeon 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 's Advantages

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

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540 +90%

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

AMD Radeon 540

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 200

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

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

-

Compute Units

6

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

384

64

TMUs

24

28

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.39 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

908.5 GFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

908.5 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

56.78 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

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 Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Lexa

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

65 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.7

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