AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

VS

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 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 1 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 85W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 260 OEM +666%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Nov 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

896

Shading Units

96

56

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

85W

TDP

69W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GT215

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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