AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1792GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 112.9GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +1305%

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

0.415 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Dec 2009

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1792MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.9GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

24

2304

Shading Units

192

144

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

28

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.50 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.15 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

414.7 GFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.84 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

182W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GT200B

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs ATI Radeon HD 3450 AGP

2

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCI

3

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

4

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon HD 8570 OEM

5

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce 210

6

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

7

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX

8

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN

9

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

10

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon HD 7450 OEM

Related News

1

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

2

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

3

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

4

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

5

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

6

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

7

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

8

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

9

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

10

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game