AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 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 180W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1733MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 +477%

8.873 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

VS

GeForce GTX 1080

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

May 2016

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1607 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

20

768

Shading Units

2560

48

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

138.6 GFLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.873 TFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

180W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GP104

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

GP104-400-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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