AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

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AMD Radeon R7 260 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 384MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

672 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (95W vs 105W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260 +481%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

VS

GeForce 8800 GS

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Jan 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

384MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

96

48

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

12

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

G92

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

G92-150-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

95W

TDP

105W

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

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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