GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon R7 M260X

CORE STATE Opal

VRAM 1024 MB

CLOCK SPEED 715 MHz

TDP —

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 1.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2015

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 980

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1216 MHz

TDP 165 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

5,727

33,457

geekbench_vulkan

4,631

38,172

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

474

geekbench_metal

N/A

15,163

passmark_directx_10

N/A

53

passmark_directx_11

N/A

83

passmark_directx_12

N/A

46

passmark_directx_9

N/A

164

passmark_g2d

N/A

792

passmark_g3d

N/A

11,095

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,753

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

R7 M260X

GTX 980

Core Specs

Shading Units

384

2,048 +433.3%

Shaders

384

2,048 +433.3%

TMUs

24

128 +433.3%

ROPs

8

64 +700.0%

Compute Units

6

—

Clocks

Base Clock

620 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

715 MHz

1216 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz 4 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

1024 MB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

1,024

4,096 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

128 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

64.00 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

256 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

5.720 GPixel/s

77.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

17.16 GTexel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

549.1 GFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

—

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

—

165 W

TDP (W)

—

165

Suggested PSU

—

450 W

Power Connectors

None

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Opal

GM204

Generation

Gem System (R7 M200)

GeForce 900

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

950 million

5,200 million

Die Size

77 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.3M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.4

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

—

Dual-slot

Length

—

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

549 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Solar System

GeForce 700

Successor

Polaris Mobile

GeForce 10

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