AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs AMD Radeon R7 260X
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2012
Oct 2013
Generation
Southern Islands
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1625 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
104.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
14
Shading Units
2048
896
TMUs
128
56
ROPs
32
16
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
17.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
61.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
1.971 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
123.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
New Zealand
Bonaire
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
2.08 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
160 mm²
GPU Variant
-
Bonaire XTX(215-0839097)
Board Design
TDP
500W
115W
Suggested PSU
900 W
300 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
6.3