AMD Radeon R7 260X vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

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AMD Radeon R7 260X AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 2048SP 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 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock1284MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 2048SP +166%

5.259 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R7 260X

1476

Radeon RX 580 2048SP +155%

3775

Radeon R7 260X

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Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Oct 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1168 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1284 MHz

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

32

896

Shading Units

2048

56

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

41.09 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

164.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.259 TFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.259 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

328.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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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