AMD Radeon R7 260 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

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AMD Radeon R7 260

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (95W vs 151W)

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

672 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition +35%

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

VS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Aug 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

18

-

768

Shading Units

1440

48

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

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1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

151W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Cypress

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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