NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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 300W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

3904 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +2648%

13.11 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jun 2017

GeForce 200

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1382 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

HBM2

448bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/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

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Vega 10

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX AIR

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

65 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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