AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

VS

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 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 5 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

680 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (85W vs 182W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 260 OEM +267%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

0.536 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Sep 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

448bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

27

896

Shading Units

216

56

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

28

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Board Design

85W

TDP

182W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

GT200

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

GPU Variant

G200-103-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

576 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

1.3

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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