GeForce GTX 260 and Radeon R7 Graphics - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 260
Radeon R7 Graphics
Architecture
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
GT200
Spectre
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2008
January 2014
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
980 MHz
Core clock speed
576 MHz
686 MHz
CUDA cores
192
-
Floating-point performance
476.9 gflops
526.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,400 million
2,410 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
512
Power consumption (TDP)
182 Watt
15 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
36.9 billion/sec
31.36
Memory type
GDDR3
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
896 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
448 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
999 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
111.9 GB/s
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVIHDTV
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131