AMD Radeon R7 260X vs AMD Radeon RX 5700

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (115W vs 180W)

AMD Radeon RX 5700 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1725MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 +303%

7.949 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R7 260X

1476

Radeon RX 5700 +475%

8499

Radeon R7 260X

VS

Radeon RX 5700

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jul 2019

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1465 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

36

896

Shading Units

2304

56

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.4 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

248.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

15.90 TFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.949 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

496.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Navi 10

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XL (215-0917220)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

180W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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