AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

VS

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 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 9 months late

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (85W vs 215W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 's Advantages

More VRAM (1280GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 260 OEM +80%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 470

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Mar 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

320bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

896

Shading Units

448

56

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

40

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

85W

TDP

215W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GF100

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

GPU Variant

GF100-275-A3

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

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

2.0

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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