AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

VS

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (85W vs 141W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 260 OEM +319%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GTX

0.47 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

VS

GeForce 9800 GTX

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Jan 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

70.40GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

896

Shading Units

128

56

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.81 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.23 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

470.0 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

85W

TDP

141W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

G92B

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

GPU Variant

G92-420-B1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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