AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock2310MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

4224 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (85W vs 335W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT +1099%

23.65 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

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Radeon R9 260 OEM

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Dec 2013

Navi II

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1860 MHz

Base Clock

-

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

80

Compute Units

14

5120

Shading Units

896

320

TMUs

56

128

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

295.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

Bonaire

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GPU Variant

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

335W

TDP

85W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

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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