AMD Radeon R7 265 vs AMD Radeon RX 560X

VS

AMD Radeon R7 265

AMD Radeon RX 560X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 265 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 265 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

AMD Radeon RX 560X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 38% (1275MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 265

1.894 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560X +37%

2.611 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 265

VS

Radeon RX 560X

Graphics Card

Feb 2014

Release Date

Apr 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1175 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1275 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

16

-

1024

Shading Units

1024

64

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.40 GPixel/s

59.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.611 TFLOPS

1.894 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.611 TFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

163.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

75W

450 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

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Polaris 21

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

3 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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