AMD Radeon R9 390X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

VS

AMD Radeon R9 390X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390X and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 390X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

2600 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (171W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 390X +1003%

5.914 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

0.536 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390X

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Nov 2008

Pirate Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

448bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

27

2816

Shading Units

216

176

TMUs

72

64

ROPs

28

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

67.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

184.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

-

5.914 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

739.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

171W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Grenada

GPU Name

GT200B

Grenada XT (215-0880004)

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

438 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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