AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

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AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT AMD Radeon R7 260X

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1905MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

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

1664 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (115W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5700 XT +394%

9.754 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5700 XT +542%

9482

Radeon R7 260X

1476

Radeon RX 5700 XT

VS

Radeon R7 260X

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Oct 2013

Navi

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1605 MHz

Base Clock

-

1905 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

14

2560

Shading Units

896

160

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

121.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

304.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

19.51 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.754 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

609.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Bonaire

Navi 10 XT (215-0917210)

GPU Variant

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

115W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.3

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