AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs AMD Radeon R7 260

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

AMD Radeon R7 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT 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 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock2310MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

4352 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 335W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT +1439%

23.65 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

Radeon R7 260

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Dec 2013

Navi II

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1860 MHz

Base Clock

-

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

80

Compute Units

12

-

5120

Shading Units

768

320

TMUs

48

128

ROPs

16

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

295.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

335W

TDP

95W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

Bonaire

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.3

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