AMD Radeon R7 260X vs ATI Radeon HD 5690

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260X

ATI Radeon HD 5690

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5690 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

496 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5690 's Advantages

Lower TDP (64W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X +217%

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5690

0.62 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

VS

Radeon HD 5690

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Feb 2011

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

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

5

-

896

Shading Units

400

56

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.200 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.50 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

620.0 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

115W

TDP

64W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Redwood

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

Redwood XT (215-0757002)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

104 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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