NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

AMD Radeon RX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480 +1123%

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 200

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1120 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

2304

64

TMUs

144

28

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Ellesmere

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

65 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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