AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

VS

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 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 6 months late

656 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (85W vs 236W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 260 OEM +216%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Jun 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

1107 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

896

Shading Units

240

56

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

85W

TDP

236W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GT200

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

GPU Variant

G200-300-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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