AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

VS

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (85W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 260 OEM

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 +22%

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Jan 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

1024

56

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

85W

TDP

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GM206

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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