AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260

NVIDIA A40 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 300W)

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

9984 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe +2336%

37.42 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

VS

A40 PCIe

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Oct 2020

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1305 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

695.8GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

84

768

Shading Units

10752

48

TMUs

336

16

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

194.9 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

584.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

37.42 TFLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.42 TFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

584.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

300W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GA102

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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