AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs AMD Radeon R7 260

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 6700 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 6700 XT 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock2581MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 230W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6700 XT +760%

13.21 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6700 XT

VS

Radeon R7 260

Graphics Card

Mar 2021

Release Date

Dec 2013

Navi II

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2321 MHz

Base Clock

-

2581 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

12

2560

Shading Units

768

160

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

40

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

165.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

413.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

26.43 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.21 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

825.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 22

GPU Name

Bonaire

Navi 22 XT (215-127000006)

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.2 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

335 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

230W

TDP

95W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.3

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