NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs AMD Radeon R9 Nano

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

AMD Radeon R9 Nano

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 Nano to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 Nano 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

3904 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 Nano +1617%

8.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

Radeon R9 Nano

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Aug 2015

GeForce 200

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

HBM

448bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

64

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

4096

64

TMUs

256

28

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

256.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

8.192 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.192 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

512.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Fiji

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

596 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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