AMD Radeon RX 580G vs AMD Radeon R7 260

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580G

AMD Radeon R7 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580G 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 RX 580G 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1330MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580G +299%

6.129 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580G

VS

Radeon R7 260

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Dec 2013

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

-

1330 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

12

-

2304

Shading Units

768

144

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

42.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

191.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

6.129 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.129 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

383.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

95W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

Bonaire

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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