AMD Radeon R7 260X vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

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AMD Radeon R7 260X AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (115W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 's Advantages

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

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition +29%

2.56 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

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Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Mar 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

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

1280

56

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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