AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

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AMD Radeon R7 260X

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 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 7 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 197W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X +413%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

VS

GeForce 9800 GX2

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Mar 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

896

Shading Units

128

56

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

16

-

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

38.40 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

115W

TDP

197W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

G92

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

G92-450-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

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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