AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 64MB VRAM GeForce2 Ultra to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 4 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 7.360GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon R7 260

VS

GeForce2 Ultra

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Aug 2000

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 2

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 4x

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

230 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

64MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

7.360GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

-

48

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.000 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

NV15

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

GeForce2 Ultra

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Celsius

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

180 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.025 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

88 mm²

Board Design

95W

TDP

Unknown

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

7.0

4.6

OpenGL

1.5

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

-

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