AMD Radeon HD 6230 vs AMD Radeon R7 260

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6230 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 95W)

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

688 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6230

0.104 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260 +1376%

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6230

VS

Radeon R7 260

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Dec 2013

Northern Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

667 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

10.67GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

2

Compute Units

12

80

Shading Units

768

8

TMUs

48

4

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

5.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

104.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Park

GPU Name

Bonaire

Park S3 LP

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

59 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

19W

TDP

95W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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