AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

AMD Radeon R7 260X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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 Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (115W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +565%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +379%

7078

Radeon R7 260X

1476

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

VS

Radeon R7 260X

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Oct 2013

Radeon Pro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

-

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

128bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

14

-

4096

Shading Units

896

256

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

115W

700 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 Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Bonaire

Vega 10 XTX AIR

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

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

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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