AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 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 450W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

15488 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090 +4089%

82.58 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R7 260X

1476

GeForce RTX 4090 +2372%

36499

Radeon R7 260X

VS

GeForce RTX 4090

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Sep 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1.01TB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

128

896

Shading Units

16384

56

TMUs

512

16

ROPs

176

-

Tensor Cores

512

-

RT Cores

128

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

72 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

443.5 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1290 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

82.58 TFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

82.58 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1290 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

450W

300 W

Suggested PSU

850 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

AD102

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

AD102-300-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

609 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

6.3

Shader Model

6.8

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