AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM

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AMD Radeon R7 260 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (95W vs 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.3GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260 +81%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560 OEM

0.848 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

VS

GeForce GTX 560 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Nov 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

802 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

320bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

128.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

384

48

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

40

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.25 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.50 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

847.9 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

106.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GF110

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

GF110-040-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

3 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

95W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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