AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM and 512MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 OEM 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 3 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

752 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (85W vs 106W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 260 OEM +337%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450 OEM

0.451 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

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GeForce GTS 450 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Sep 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

902 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.73GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

3

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

144

56

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.698 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.79 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

451.0 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.58 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GF106

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Board Design

85W

TDP

106W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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