GeForce GT 630 vs Radeon R7 260

GeForce GT 630
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 15 May 2012
GeForce GT 630
Radeon R7 260
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 Dec 2013
Radeon R7 260

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 630

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 260

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 260

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 260

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 630Radeon R7 260
GPU NameGF108 (GF108-400-A1)vsBonaire (Bonaire PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors585 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders96vs768
Compute Units2vs12
Core clock810 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs4vs16
TMUs16vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 630Radeon R7 260
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 630Radeon R7 260
TDP65 wattsvs95 watts
Release Date15 May 2012vs17 Dec 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 630
    3.24 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 260
    16.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 630
    13.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 260
    48.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 630
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 260
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 630
    311.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 260
    1536.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better