Radeon RX 7900 XT vs Radeon R7 260
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 20GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 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 7900 XT 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock2394MHz
More VRAM (20GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (800.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
4608 additional rendering cores
Radeon R7 260 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 7900 XT
+3251%
51480
Radeon R7 260
1536
Graphics Card
Nov 2022
Release Date
Dec 2013
Navi III
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1387 MHz
Base Clock
-
2394 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2500 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
20GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
320bit
Memory Bus
128bit
800.0GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
84
Compute Units
12
5376
Shading Units
768
336
TMUs
48
192
ROPs
16
84
RT Cores
-
256 KB per Array
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
6 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
80 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
459.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.00 GPixel/s
804.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
48.00 GTexel/s
103.0 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
51.48 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
1.609 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
96.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
95W
700 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.1a
2x DisplayPort 2.1
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 31
GPU Name
Bonaire
Navi 31 XT
(215-145000156)
GPU Variant
Bonaire PRO
RDNA 3.0
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
57.7 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
529 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.2
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.7
Shader Model
6.3
