AMD Radeon R7 260X vs AMD Radeon RX 580

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 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 185W)

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 +213%

6.175 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R7 260X

1476

Radeon RX 580 +195%

4359

Radeon R7 260X

VS

Radeon RX 580

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Apr 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

36

896

Shading Units

2304

56

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

185W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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