AMD Radeon R9 380X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

VS

AMD Radeon R9 380X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 380X and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 380X 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (182.4GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 380X +732%

3.973 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 380X

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Jun 2008

Pirate Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1425 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

182.4GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

24

2048

Shading Units

192

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

28

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

124.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

3.973 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.973 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

248.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Board Design

190W

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

Antigua

GPU Name

GT200

Antigua XT (215-0877016)

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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