
amd
Brand2GB GDDR5
Memory768
Cores96 GB/s
BandwidthAMD Radeon R7 260

nvidia
Brand2GB GDDR5
Memory384
Cores48.06 GB/s
BandwidthNVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

AMD Radeon R7 260
Radeon R7 260
$109 • Dec 2013
GeForce GT 1030
$79 • May 2017
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

Specs Comparison
Specification | AMD Radeon R7 260 | NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 |
---|---|---|
Memory Size | 2 GB | 2 GB |
Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
TDP | 95 W | 30 W |
Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
Boost Clock | N/A | 1468 MHz |
Memory Bandwidth | 96 GB/s | 48.06 GB/s |
Process Size | 28nm | 14nm |
Architecture | GCN 2.0 | Pascal |
Shading Units | 768 | 384 |
RT Cores | N/A | N/A |
TMUs | 48 | 24 |
ROPs | 16 | 16 |
Memory Bus | 128-bit | 64-bit |
Memory Clock | 1500 MHz | 1502 MHz |
Pixel Rate | 16 GPixel/s | 23.49 GPixel/s |
Texture Rate | 96 GTexel/s | 48.06 GTexel/s |
FP32 Performance | 1.536 GFLOPS | 1 GFLOPS |
L2 Cache | 0.25 MB | 0.50 MB |
Die Size | 160 mm² | 74 mm² |
Transistors | 2080 Million | 1800 Million |
Required PSU | 250 W | 200 W |
Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin | None |
Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x4 |
DirectX | 12 | 12.1 |
Vulkan | N/A | 1.3 |
OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
Foundry | TSMC | Samsung |
Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks


3DMark Time Spy
Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads
Graphics Score
AMD Radeon R7 260
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030


Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
AMD Radeon R7 260
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030


GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
AMD Radeon R7 260
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030


PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
AMD Radeon R7 260
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030
Game Benchmarks Comparison
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NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 Wins!
Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks

AMD Radeon R7 260
AMD • 2GB GDDR5

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030
NVIDIA • 2GB GDDR5
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