AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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AMD Radeon R7 260X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (115W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1076MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +207%

6.06 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R7 260X

1476

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +290%

5758

Radeon R7 260X

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GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jun 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

2816

56

TMUs

176

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GM200

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

8 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

601 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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