AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

VS

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

AMD Radeon R7 260X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (115W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 295X2 +190%

5.733 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

VS

Radeon R7 260X

Graphics Card

Apr 2014

Release Date

Oct 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

14

-

2816

Shading Units

896

176

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.15 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

179.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

5.733 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

716.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

115W

900 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Vesuvius

GPU Name

Bonaire

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

GPU Variant

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.3

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