NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

AMD Radeon R7 260X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 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 2070 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock1620MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (115W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2070 +278%

7.465 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2070 +500%

8861

Radeon R7 260X

1476

GeForce RTX 2070

VS

Radeon R7 260X

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 20

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1620 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

36

SM Count

-

2304

Shading Units

896

144

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

16

288

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

103.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

233.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

14.93 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.465 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

233.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

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

TU106-400A-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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