AMD Radeon R7 260X vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260X

AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

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 590 +261%

7.119 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R7 260X

1476

Radeon RX 590 +222%

4757

Radeon R7 260X

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Nov 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1469 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1545 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

14

Compute Units

36

-

896

Shading Units

2304

56

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

175W

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 Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Polaris 30

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

232 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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