AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

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AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7800 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 7800 XT 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock2430MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (624.1GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

2944 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (85W vs 263W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7800 XT +1793%

37.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7800 XT

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Radeon R9 260 OEM

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

1295 MHz

Base Clock

-

2430 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2438 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

624.1GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

60

Compute Units

14

3840

Shading Units

896

240

TMUs

56

96

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

233.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

583.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

74.65 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

37.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

1166 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 32

GPU Name

Bonaire

Navi 32 XT (215-180000006)

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

Board Design

263W

TDP

85W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1a 3x DisplayPort 2.1

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

2.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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