AMD Radeon R7 260 vs ATI Radeon HD 2950 PRO

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260

ATI Radeon HD 2950 PRO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2950 PRO to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2950 PRO 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260 +300%

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2950 PRO

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

VS

Radeon HD 2950 PRO

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

4

-

768

Shading Units

320

48

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

RV670

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO ES (215-0708001)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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