AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

656 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (95W vs 125W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260 +357%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GT

0.336 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

VS

GeForce 8800 GT

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Oct 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

768

Shading Units

112

48

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

336.0 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

95W

TDP

125W

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 Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

G92

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

G92-270-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

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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