AMD Radeon R7 260X vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 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 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 +37%

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

VS

Radeon HD 6970

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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

24

896

Shading Units

1536

56

TMUs

96

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Cayman

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

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

Board Design

115W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA TITAN V

2

AMD Radeon R7 260X vs AMD Radeon Pro V5300X

3

AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB

4

AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA L20

5

AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2

6

AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

7

AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

8

AMD Radeon R7 260X vs AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM

9

AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

10

AMD Radeon R7 260X vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

Related News

1

Surpassing RTX 2050! Intel's Next-Gen Integrated Graphics Benchmark Closely Approaches AMD

2

New Benchmarks for AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Revealed: Single-Core Parity with R9 7945HX3D, Multi-Core Still Lower

3

X3D Performance Beyond Words! AMD Ryzen 7 9700X May Unlock Power Consumption: From 65W to 120W

4

First Benchmark Leak of Intel Core Ultra 7 268V: Single-Core Performance Soars by 20%, Still Lags Behind AMD

5

NVIDIA Grace CPU Benchmark Results Released, Stunning Performance

6

Minisforum Launches UM890 Pro Mini PC with R9 8945HS and Dual USB4 Ports

7

Does the Apple A18 Neural Engine Boast Superior Performance? Computational Power May Surpass M4 Chip

8

AMD's Commitment to Pioneering Each Generation with Cutting-Edge Process Technology and Continuous Innovation in Design, Packaging, and Assembly

9

NVIDIA to Ramp Up Orders and Add New Suppliers to Meet Explosive Demand for Blackwell Products

10

NVIDIA Informs Brands of Reduced Supply for RTX 40 Series GPUs