AMD Radeon R7 260 vs ATI Radeon X1600

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260

ATI Radeon X1600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1600 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

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 95W)

Score

Radeon R7 260

VS

Radeon X1600

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

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

-

48

TMUs

4

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.540 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.540 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

95W

TDP

27W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

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

-

6.3

Shader Model

3.0

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