AMD Radeon R7 260X vs AMD Radeon RX 560DX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560DX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
AMD Radeon RX 560DX 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1175MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Lower TDP (65W vs 115W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R7 260X
1.971 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 560DX
+6%
2.106 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Apr 2018
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1090 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1175 MHz
1625 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
104.0GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
14
Compute Units
14
-
-
-
896
Shading Units
896
56
TMUs
56
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
17.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
18.80 GPixel/s
61.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
65.80 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
2.106 TFLOPS
1.971 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.106 TFLOPS
123.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
131.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
115W
TDP
65W
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 Processor
Bonaire
GPU Name
Polaris 21
Bonaire XTX
(215-0839097)
GPU Variant
Polaris 21 XL
GCN 2.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
2.08 billion
Transistors
3 billion
160 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
6.3
Shader Model
6.4
