AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (95W vs 375W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260 +42%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

1.078 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

VS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

768

Shading Units

512

48

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.86 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.73 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1078 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

95W

TDP

375W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GF100

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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