AMD Radeon R7 260 vs AMD Radeon R9 370X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X 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 180W)

AMD Radeon R9 370X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1030MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X +71%

2.637 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

VS

Radeon R9 370X

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Aug 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

980 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1030 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

24

768

Shading Units

1280

48

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.96 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.637 TFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

164.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Trinidad

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

Trinidad XT

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

95W

TDP

180W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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