AMD Radeon R9 380X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

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AMD Radeon R9 380X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 380X 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 380X 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

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

1832 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 380X +641%

3.973 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

0.536 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 380X

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GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Graphics Card

Nov 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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

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

-

SM Count

27

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

216

128

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

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

41.47 GTexel/s

3.973 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.973 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

248.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Antigua

GPU Name

GT200

Antigua XT (215-0877016)

GPU Variant

G200-103-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

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 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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