Product Compare

AMD Radeon R7 260 vs AMD Radeon RX 580

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Dec 2013 Apr 2017
Generation Volcanic Islands Polaris
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 2000 MHz
Base Clock 1257 MHz
Boost Clock 1340 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 128bit 256bit
Bandwidth 96.00GB/s 256.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 12 36
Shading Units 768 2304
TMUs 48 144
ROPs 16 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 256 KB 2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 16.00 GPixel/s 42.88 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 48.00 GTexel/s 193.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 1.536 TFLOPS 6.175 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 96.00 GFLOPS 385.9 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 6.175 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Bonaire Polaris 20
GPU Variant Bonaire PRO Polaris 20 XTX(215-0910038)
Architecture GCN 2.0 GCN 4.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Process Size 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 2.08 billion 5.7 billion
Die Size 160 mm² 232 mm²
Board Design
TDP 95W 185W
Suggested PSU 250 W 450 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 2.1
Vulkan 1.2 1.3
Shader Model 6.3 6.7