AMD Radeon R9 380X vs AMD Radeon R7 260

VS

AMD Radeon R9 380X

AMD Radeon R7 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 380X and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 380X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (182.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 380X +158%

3.973 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 380X

VS

Radeon R7 260

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Dec 2013

Pirate Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1425 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

182.4GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

12

-

2048

Shading Units

768

128

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

124.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

3.973 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.973 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

248.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

190W

TDP

95W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Antigua

GPU Name

Bonaire

Antigua XT (215-0877016)

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

366 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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