NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 360 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 104.0GB/s)

AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 896GB)

576 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (85W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 360 OEM +238%

1.613 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

Radeon R9 360 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce 200

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

128bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

768

64

TMUs

48

28

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.80 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.613 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

100.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

85W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Tobago

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

Tobago PRO (215-0875010)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

160 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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