AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2

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AMD Radeon R7 260X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 X2 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 1GB)

544 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 215W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (107.1GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X +130%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 X2

0.855 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

VS

GeForce GTX 470 X2

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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

107.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

11

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

352

56

TMUs

44

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.38 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.75 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

855.4 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GF100

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

GF100-030-A3

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

215W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

3x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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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