AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490

VS

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages

416 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (85W vs 365W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 260 OEM +69%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 490

1.166 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 490

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

854 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

15

896

Shading Units

480

56

TMUs

60

16

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.24 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.48 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1166 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

85W

TDP

365W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GF100

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

GPU Variant

GF100-375-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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