AMD Radeon R7 260X vs AMD Radeon RX 550

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

384 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (50W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X +62%

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R7 260X +23%

1476

Radeon RX 550

1200

Radeon R7 260X

VS

Radeon RX 550

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Apr 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

8

896

Shading Units

512

56

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

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

18.93 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Lexa

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

50W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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