AMD Radeon R7 260 vs AMD Radeon RX 5300 XT

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260

AMD Radeon RX 5300 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5300 XT 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 100W)

AMD Radeon RX 5300 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1845MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5300 XT +238%

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

VS

Radeon RX 5300 XT

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Oct 2019

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1670 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

22

-

768

Shading Units

1408

48

TMUs

88

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

100W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Navi 14

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XL

GCN 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.5

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