AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Oct 2013
Sep 2014
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 600
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1625 MHz
1502 MHz
Base Clock
-
980 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1032 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
192bit
Bandwidth
104.0GB/s
144.2GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
14
-
Shading Units
896
960
TMUs
56
80
ROPs
16
24
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
256 KB
384 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
17.60 GPixel/s
20.64 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
61.60 GTexel/s
82.56 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.971 TFLOPS
1.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.2 GFLOPS
82.56 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Bonaire
GK104
GPU Variant
Bonaire XTX(215-0839097)
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Architecture
GCN 2.0
Kepler
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.08 billion
3.54 billion
Die Size
160 mm²
294 mm²

Board Design

TDP
115W
140W
Suggested PSU
300 W
300 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
CUDA
-
3.0