AMD Radeon R7 260X vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260X

ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (115W vs 294W)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +17%

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Nov 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

20

-

896

Shading Units

1600

56

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

294W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Hemlock

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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