AMD Radeon R7 260 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 256MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

648 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260 +700%

1.536 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

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ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Jun 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

3

768

Shading Units

120

48

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

RV630

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Board Design

95W

TDP

45W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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