AMD Radeon R7 260 vs AMD Radeon R9 M280X

GPU Specs Compare

G

AMD Radeon R7 260

AMD 2013-12
G

AMD Radeon R9 M280X

AMD 2015-02

Graphics Card

Release Date
Dec 2013
Feb 2015
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Gem System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1375 MHz
Base Clock
-
900 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1000 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
128bit
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
88.00GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
12
14
Shading Units
768
896
TMUs
48
56
ROPs
16
16
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
256 KB
256 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
16.00 GPixel/s
16.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
48.00 GTexel/s
56.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
1.792 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
96.00 GFLOPS
112.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Bonaire
Saturn
GPU Variant
Bonaire PRO
Saturn XT(216-0843024)
Architecture
GCN 2.0
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.08 billion
2.08 billion
Die Size
160 mm²
160 mm²

Board Design

TDP
95W
Unknown
Suggested PSU
250 W
-
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
-

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.2.170
Shader Model
6.3
6.5