NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 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 RTX 2080 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

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

2048 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (85W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 +410%

10.07 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080

VS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2018

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 20

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1515 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

2944

Shading Units

896

184

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

16

368

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

314.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

20.14 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.07 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

314.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

Bonaire

TU104-400A-A1

GPU Variant

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

545 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

215W

TDP

85W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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