NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1076MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (85W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +207%

6.06 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 900

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

-

2816

Shading Units

896

176

TMUs

56

96

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

85W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

Bonaire

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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