AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1280GB)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 215W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X +80%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

VS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

320bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

896

Shading Units

448

56

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

40

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

115W

TDP

215W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GT215

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

GT215-400-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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