AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 AMD Radeon R7 260X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1471MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (115W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +434%

10.54 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX Vega 56 +365%

6873

Radeon R7 260X

1476

Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

Radeon R7 260X

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Oct 2013

Vega

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

-

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

128bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

56

Compute Units

14

3584

Shading Units

896

224

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Bonaire

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

210W

TDP

115W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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