AMD Radeon R7 260 vs ATI Radeon X1550 PCI

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 4.256GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1550 PCI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 95W)

Score

Radeon R7 260

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Radeon X1550 PCI

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Jan 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

4.256GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

-

48

TMUs

4

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.808 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.808 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

RV516

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Board Design

95W

TDP

27W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

3.0

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