Stream Processor vs Radeon R9 260 OEM

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)	Ultra-Threaded SE (2005−2007)
GPU code name	Bonaire	R580
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	21 December 2013 (10 years ago)	2006 (18 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	896	no data
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	594 MHz
Number of transistors	2,080 million	384 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	85 Watt	165 Watt
Texture fill rate	61.60	9.504
Floating-point processing power	1.971 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	16	16
TMUs	56	16

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	183 mm	241 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1625 MHz	1296 MBps
Memory bandwidth	104.0 GB/s	41.47 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (12_0)	9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model	6.3	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)
OpenCL	2.0	N/A
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography	28 nm	90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	85 Watt	165 Watt

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