AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R7 260X NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

784 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 125W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X +486%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

0.336 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

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GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Feb 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

112

56

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

336.0 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

G92

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

G92-270-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

125W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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