AMD Radeon R7 260X vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260X

AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 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 10 months late

Lower TDP (115W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950 +14%

2.253 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Dec 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

22

-

896

Shading Units

1408

56

TMUs

88

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

25.60 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Cayman

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

389 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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