AMD Radeon R9 380X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

VS

AMD Radeon R9 380X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 380X and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 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 4 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 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 380X +732%

3.973 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

0.477 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 380X

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Jul 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

GT200B

Antigua XT (215-0877016)

GPU Variant

G200-103-B3

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

470 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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