AMD Radeon R7 260 vs AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 6600 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 160W)
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock2589MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R7 260
1.536 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 6600 XT
+590%
10.6 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2013
Release Date
Jul 2021
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Navi II
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1968 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2589 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
12
Compute Units
32
-
-
-
768
Shading Units
2048
48
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
256 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
L3 Cache
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
16.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
165.7 GPixel/s
48.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
331.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
21.21 TFLOPS
1.536 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
10.60 TFLOPS
96.00 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
662.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
160W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Bonaire
GPU Name
Navi 23
Bonaire PRO
GPU Variant
Navi 23 XT
(215-130000006)
GCN 2.0
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
7 nm
2.08 billion
Transistors
11.06 billion
160 mm²
Die Size
237 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
-
-
6.3
Shader Model
6.7
