AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570

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AMD Radeon R7 260X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 570 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

416 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 219W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (152.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X +40%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 570

1.405 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

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GeForce GTX 570

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Dec 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

320bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

152.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

15

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

480

56

TMUs

60

16

ROPs

40

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.96 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.92 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1405 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

175.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GF110

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

GF110-275-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

3 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

219W

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

2x 6-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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