AMD Radeon R7 260 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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AMD Radeon R7 260

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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 300W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +753%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

VS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Jun 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1382 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

64

-

768

Shading Units

4096

48

TMUs

256

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

300W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 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

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Vega 10

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX AIR

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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