AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 7800 GTX 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (95W vs 108W)

Score

Radeon R7 260

VS

GeForce 7800 GTX 512

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Nov 2005

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 7 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

-

48

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

95W

TDP

108W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

G70

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

GF-7800-GTX-512-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.302 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

333 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

3.0

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