Radeon RX 6500 XT vs Radeon R7 260
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock2815MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (143.9GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Radeon R7 260 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 107W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 6500 XT
+275%
5765
Radeon R7 260
1536
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Dec 2013
Navi II
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2310 MHz
Base Clock
-
2815 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2248 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
143.9GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
12
1024
Shading Units
768
64
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
16
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
16 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
90.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.00 GPixel/s
180.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
48.00 GTexel/s
11.53 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.765 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
360.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
96.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
107W
TDP
95W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.1
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 24
GPU Name
Bonaire
Navi 24 XT
(215-135000006)
GPU Variant
Bonaire PRO
RDNA 2.0
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.4 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
107 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.2
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.6
Shader Model
6.3
