NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs AMD Radeon R9 270

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 AMD Radeon R9 270

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

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

1088 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 +396%

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

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Radeon R9 270

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 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 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

24

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

192

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

28

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Curacao

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

182W

TDP

150W

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

1x 6-pin

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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