NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 OEM 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 28.80GB/s)

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock780MHz

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240 OEM +4%

0.499 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

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Radeon R7 240 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 200

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

730 MHz

-

Boost Clock

780 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

448bit

Memory Bus

128bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

24

SM Count

-

Compute Units

5

192

Shading Units

320

64

TMUs

20

28

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

499.2 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

31.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Oland

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

182W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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