AMD Radeon R7 260 vs AMD Radeon RX 560DX

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560DX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560DX 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1175MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560DX +37%

2.106 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

VS

Radeon RX 560DX

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Apr 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1090 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1175 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

14

768

Shading Units

896

48

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.80 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

65.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.106 TFLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.106 TFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

131.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Polaris 21

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XL

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

3 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

95W

TDP

65W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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