AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260X

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 240 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

784 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X +442%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

0.363 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

VS

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jul 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

70.40GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

896

Shading Units

112

56

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.80 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

362.9 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

115W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

G92B

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

G92-240-B1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

260 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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