AMD Radeon RX 570 vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 570 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 570 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1244MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (115W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 570 +158%

5.095 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 570 +161%

3860

Radeon R7 260X

1476

Radeon RX 570

VS

Radeon R7 260X

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Oct 2013

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1168 MHz

Base Clock

-

1244 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

14

2048

Shading Units

896

128

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

39.81 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

159.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

5.095 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.095 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

318.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

Bonaire

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

GPU Variant

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

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

Board Design

150W

TDP

115W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

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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