AMD Radeon R7 260 vs ATI Radeon HD 2950 XTX

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260

ATI Radeon HD 2950 XTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2950 XTX 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 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (95W vs 110W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260 +209%

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2950 XTX

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

VS

Radeon HD 2950 XTX

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

1126 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/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

12.43 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

110W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 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 XTX (215-0708004)

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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation

2

AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce 405 OEM

3

AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA T600

4

AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8

5

AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI

6

AMD Radeon R7 260 vs AMD FirePro W4000

7

AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti

8

AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA B200 SXM 192 GB

9

AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

10

AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA TITAN RTX

Related News

1

AMD's Thunderous Strike: Ryzen 9 9950X3D Performance Scores Revealed for the First Time!

2

Continuous Decline in DRAM Memory Prices: Downward Trend Intensifies

3

NVIDIA GB202 Chip Unveiled for the First Time, to be Used in RTX 5090 with 512-bit GDDR7 Memory

4

Strix Halo Integrated Graphics Score Appears on Passmark, Currently Slightly Below RTX 3060 12GB

5

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

6

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

7

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

8

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

9

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

10

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market