AMD Radeon R7 260 vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6900 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 300W)

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock2250MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

4352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6900 XT +1400%

23.04 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

VS

Radeon RX 6900 XT

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Oct 2020

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1825 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2250 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

80

768

Shading Units

5120

48

TMUs

320

16

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

80

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

288.0 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

720.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

46.08 TFLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1440 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Navi 21

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

Navi 21 XTX (215-121000167)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

95W

TDP

300W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.5

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