AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1190MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (75W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X +7%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

1.828 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

VS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Mar 2016

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1026 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1190 MHz

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

768

56

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.08 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.12 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.828 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.12 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 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

None

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GM206

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

GM206-251-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

228 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

5.2

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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