AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1076MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 260 OEM

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +207%

6.06 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Jun 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

2816

56

TMUs

176

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GM200

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

8 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

601 mm²

Board Design

85W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 + 1x 8-pin

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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