AMD Radeon R7 260 vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

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AMD Radeon R7 260

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +272%

5.728 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

VS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Apr 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro GCN

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

36

-

768

Shading Units

2304

48

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.78 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.728 TFLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.728 TFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

358.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.7

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