AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970 +155%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Sep 2014

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

1664

48

TMUs

104

16

ROPs

56

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

148W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GM204

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

398 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

6.4

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