GeForce GTX 260 vs Radeon R9 290
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 260 |
| 93 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 290 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
| PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor |
Reasons to consider Radeon R9 290 |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon R9 290
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 260 | | Radeon R9 290 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GT200 (G200-100-A2) | vs | Hawaii (Hawaii PRO) |
| Fab Process | 65 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 576 mm² | vs | 438 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,400 million | vs | 6,200 million |
| Shaders | 192 | vs | 2560 |
| Compute Units | 8 | vs | 40 |
| Core clock | 576 MHz | vs | 947 MHz |
| ROPs | 28 | vs | 64 |
| TMUs | 64 | vs | 160 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 260 | | Radeon R9 290 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 448 bit | vs | 512 bit |
| Memory Speed | 999 MHz
1998 MHz effective | vs | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 896 Mb | vs | 4096 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 260 | | Radeon R9 290 | |
|---|
| TDP | 182 watts | vs | 275 watts |
| Release Date | 16 Jun 2008 | vs | 5 Nov 2013 |
GeForce GTX 260
16.10 GP/s
Radeon R9 290
60.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 260
36.90 GT/s
Radeon R9 290
152.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 260
112.00 GB/s
Radeon R9 290
320.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 260
476.90 GFLOPs
Radeon R9 290
4849.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better