Product Compare

AMD Radeon R7 260 vs AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Dec 2013 Jul 2017
Generation Volcanic Islands Polaris
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1750 MHz
Base Clock 1090 MHz
Boost Clock 1175 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 4GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 128bit 128bit
Bandwidth 96.00GB/s 112.0GB/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 1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 16.00 GPixel/s 18.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 48.00 GTexel/s 65.80 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 1.536 TFLOPS 2.106 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 96.00 GFLOPS 131.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 2.106 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Bonaire Polaris 21
GPU Variant Bonaire PRO Polaris 21 XL
Architecture GCN 2.0 GCN 4.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Process Size 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 2.08 billion 3 billion
Die Size 160 mm² 123 mm²
Board Design
TDP 95W 45W
Suggested PSU 250 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin None
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 2.1
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 6.3 6.4