AMD Radeon R7 260 vs ATI Radeon HD 3470

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260

ATI Radeon HD 3470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 15.20GB/s)

728 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260 +2300%

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3470

0.064 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

VS

Radeon HD 3470

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Jan 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

15.20GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

2

-

768

Shading Units

40

48

TMUs

4

16

ROPs

4

-

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

3.200 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

64.00 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

95W

TDP

30W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

RV620

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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