AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1201MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM +60%

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

VS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Nov 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1176 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

1024

48

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

Unknown

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GM206

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

228 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

5.2

6.3

Shader Model

6.7

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