AMD Radeon R7 260X vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (115W vs 188W)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 +38%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

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Radeon HD 5870

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Sep 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

20

896

Shading Units

1600

56

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Cypress

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

188W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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