ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT vs AMD Radeon R7 260

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

AMD Radeon R7 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (106.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (95W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260 +222%

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

VS

Radeon R7 260

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Dec 2013

Radeon R600

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

828 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

106.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

12

-

320

Shading Units

768

16

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.89 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

11.89 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

-

475.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

95W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

Bonaire

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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