AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (115W vs 180W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1733MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 +350%

8.873 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R7 260X

1476

GeForce GTX 1080 +410%

7536

Radeon R7 260X

VS

GeForce GTX 1080

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

May 2016

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1607 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

20

896

Shading Units

2560

56

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

138.6 GFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.873 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

180W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x 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

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GP104

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

GP104-400-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

314 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

6.1

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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