AMD Radeon R7 260 vs AMD Radeon R7 250XE
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250XE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)
128 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R7 250XE 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
Lower TDP (80W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R7 260
+39%
1.536 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 250XE
1.101 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2013
Release Date
Aug 2014
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1125 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
72.00GB/s
Render Config
12
Compute Units
10
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768
Shading Units
640
48
TMUs
40
16
ROPs
16
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16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
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-
Theoretical Performance
16.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
13.76 GPixel/s
48.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
34.40 GTexel/s
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1.536 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1101 GFLOPS
96.00 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
68.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
80W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Bonaire
GPU Name
Cape Verde
Bonaire PRO
GPU Variant
Cape Verde XT
GCN 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.08 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
160 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
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6.3
Shader Model
5.1
