AMD Radeon R7 260 vs AMD Radeon Sky 500

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Lower TDP (95W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500 +58%

2.432 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

VS

Radeon Sky 500

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Mar 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon Sky

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

20

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

30.40 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.432 TFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

152.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

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

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 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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