NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

AMD Radeon R7 260X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1650MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (115W vs 184W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +264%

7.181 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +443%

8024

Radeon R7 260X

1476

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

VS

Radeon R7 260X

Graphics Card

Dec 2021

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 20

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1470 MHz

Base Clock

-

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

34

SM Count

-

2176

Shading Units

896

136

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

16

272

Tensor Cores

-

34

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

79.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

224.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

14.36 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.181 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

224.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

184W

TDP

115W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Bonaire

TU106-300-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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