NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs AMD Radeon R9 285X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

AMD Radeon R9 285X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 285X 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X +760%

4.104 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

Radeon R9 285X

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 200

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

384bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/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

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.06 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.3 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.104 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

182W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Tonga

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

5 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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