NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs AMD Radeon R9 M275X

What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 and AMD Radeon R9 M275X. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

Graphics Processor (GPU)

GT200GPU NameVenus
G200-100-A2Model numberVenus XTX
Tesla 2.0ArchitectureGCN 1.0
TSMCFoundryTSMC
65 nmProcess Size28 nm
1,400 millionTransistors1,500 million
576 mm²Die Size123 mm²

Graphics Card

Jun 16th, 2008Release DateJan 28th, 2014
GeForce 200FamilyCrystal System
(R9 M200)
End-of-lifeProductionEnd-of-life
GeForce 9PredecessorSolar System
PCIe 2.0 x16Bus InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16

Memory

896 MBMemory Size2 GB
GDDR3Memory TypeGDDR5
448 bitMemory Bus128 bit
111.9 GB/sBandwidth72.00 GB/s

Performance

16.13 GPixel/sPixel fillrate14.80 GPixel/s
36.86 GTexel/sTexture fillrate37.00 GTexel/s
476.9 GFLOPSFP32 (float) performance1,184 GFLOPS
59.62 GFLOPS (1:8)FP64 (double) performance74.00 GFLOPS (1:16)

Clock Speeds

999 MHz
1998 Mbps effective
Memory Clock1125 MHz
4.5 Gbps effective

Render Config

192Shading Units640
64TMUs40
28ROPs16
224 KBL2 Cache256 KB

Board Design

182 WThermal design power (TDP)unknown
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Display ConnectorsNo outputs

API support

11.1 (10_0)DirectX12 (11_1)
3.3OpenGL4.6
1.1OpenCL1.2
N/AVulkan1.2
4.0Shader Model5.1