NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs AMD Radeon R7 260

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

AMD Radeon R7 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

Boost Clock902MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Lower TDP (95W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780 +170%

4.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780

VS

Radeon R7 260

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 700

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

863 MHz

Base Clock

-

902 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

-

2304

Shading Units

768

192

TMUs

48

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

-

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

95W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK110

GPU Name

Bonaire

GK110-300-A1

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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