Radeon R9 260 OEM: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Radeon R9 260 OEM sales 21 December 2013. This is a desktop graphics card based on a GCN 2.0 architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.63 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 104.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 183 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 85 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon R9 260 OEM: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameBonaire
Market segmentDesktop
Release date21 December 2013 (11 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Radeon R9 260 OEM's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R9 260 OEM's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores896of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed1100 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors2,080 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)85 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate61.60of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power1.971 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs16of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs56of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon R9 260 OEM and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
Length183 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R9 260 OEM: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1625 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth104.0 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 260 OEM. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI+

API compatibility

APIs supported by Radeon R9 260 OEM, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.3
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL2.0
Vulkan1.2.131

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon R9 260 OEM. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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NVIDIA equivalent

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