Radeon RX Vega 56 vs Radeon R9 260 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX Vega 56 Advantages
Released 3 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1471MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)
2688 additional rendering cores
Radeon R9 260 OEM Advantages
Lower TDP (85W vs 210W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX Vega 56
+434%
10540
Radeon R9 260 OEM
1971
Graphics Card
Aug 2017
Release Date
Dec 2013
Vega
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1156 MHz
Base Clock
-
1471 MHz
Boost Clock
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1625 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1024MB
HBM2
Memory Type
GDDR5
2048bit
Memory Bus
128bit
409.6GB/s
Bandwidth
104.0GB/s
Render Config
56
Compute Units
14
3584
Shading Units
896
224
TMUs
56
64
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
94.14 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.60 GPixel/s
329.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
61.60 GTexel/s
21.09 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.54 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.971 TFLOPS
659.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
210W
TDP
85W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Vega 10
GPU Name
Bonaire
Vega 10 XL
(215-0894216)
(215-0894216)
GPU Variant
Bonaire XT
(215-0839039)
(215-0839039)
GCN 5.0
Architecture
GCN 2.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
12.5 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
495 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
6.4
Shader Model
6.3
