AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 7700 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 7700 XT 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock2544MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)
2560 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (85W vs 245W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 7700 XT
+1684%
35.17 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 260 OEM
1.971 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2023
Release Date
Dec 2013
Navi III
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1435 MHz
Base Clock
-
2544 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
1625 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
104.0GB/s
Render Config
54
Compute Units
14
-
-
-
3456
Shading Units
896
216
TMUs
56
96
ROPs
16
-
-
-
54
RT Cores
-
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
48 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
244.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.60 GPixel/s
549.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
61.60 GTexel/s
70.34 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
35.17 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.971 TFLOPS
1099 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
245W
TDP
85W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.1a
2x DisplayPort 2.1
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 32
GPU Name
Bonaire
Navi 32 XL
(215-180000076)
GPU Variant
Bonaire XT
(215-0839039)
RDNA 3.0
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
28.1 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
346 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.2
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
6.7
Shader Model
6.3
