AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2013
Sep 2014
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1753 MHz
Base Clock
-
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1216 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
12
-
Shading Units
768
2048
TMUs
48
128
ROPs
16
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
256 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
16.00 GPixel/s
77.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
48.00 GTexel/s
155.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
4.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
96.00 GFLOPS
155.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Bonaire
GM204
GPU Variant
Bonaire PRO
GM204-400-A1
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.08 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
160 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
95W
165W
Suggested PSU
250 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.3
6.4
CUDA
-
5.2