AMD Radeon R7 260X vs AMD Radeon RX 560

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260X

AMD Radeon RX 560

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1275MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 +32%

2.611 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R7 260X

1476

Radeon RX 560 +20%

1780

Radeon R7 260X

VS

Radeon RX 560

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Apr 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1175 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1275 MHz

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

16

-

896

Shading Units

1024

56

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.40 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.611 TFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.611 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

163.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Polaris 21

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

3 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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