AMD Radeon R7 260X vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (115W vs 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2 +185%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

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Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jun 2014

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

44

896

Shading Units

2816

56

TMUs

176

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Hawaii

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

580W

300 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

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CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.3

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