AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

416 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X +46%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

VS

GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Mar 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

924 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

177.4GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

15

896

Shading Units

480

56

TMUs

60

16

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

GF100

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

GF100-375-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

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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