AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

VS

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 PRO to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (85W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 260 OEM +413%

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Dec 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

4

-

896

Shading Units

320

56

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

85W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

R600

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

GPU Variant

R600 PRO (215RGMDKA13FG)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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