AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 vs AMD Radeon R7 260

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

AMD Radeon R7 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 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 6970 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 X2 +75%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

Radeon R7 260

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Dec 2013

Northern Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

12

-

1536

Shading Units

768

96

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

95W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

Bonaire

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO

TeraScale 3

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

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

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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