AMD Radeon R9 370X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

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AMD Radeon R9 370X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 370X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1030MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1064 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 370X +391%

2.637 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

0.536 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Sep 2008

Pirate Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

-

1030 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

27

1280

Shading Units

216

80

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

28

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

82.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

-

2.637 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

164.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

182W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Trinidad

GPU Name

GT200

Trinidad XT

GPU Variant

G200-103-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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