Radeon RX 6700 XT vs Radeon R7 260
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 6700 XT and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 6700 XT 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock2581MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
Radeon R7 260 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 230W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+760%
13210
Radeon R7 260
1536
Graphics Card
Mar 2021
Release Date
Dec 2013
Navi II
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2321 MHz
Base Clock
-
2581 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
384.0GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
12
2560
Shading Units
768
160
TMUs
48
64
ROPs
16
40
RT Cores
-
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
3 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
96 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
165.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.00 GPixel/s
413.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
48.00 GTexel/s
26.43 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
13.21 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
825.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
96.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
230W
TDP
95W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 22
GPU Name
Bonaire
Navi 22 XT
(215-127000006)
GPU Variant
Bonaire PRO
RDNA 2.0
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
28 nm
17.2 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
335 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.5
Shader Model
6.3
