AMD Radeon R7 260X vs AMD Radeon RX 560

Compare AMD Radeon R7 260X 2 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 560 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

779 points

825 points

5% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

19 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

12 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

18 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

Identical

6 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1500 points

1833 points

22% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

1175 MHz

6% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

1275 MHz

27% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

104 GB/s

112 GB/s

7% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

115 W

80 W

43% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

17.6 Gigapixels/s

20.4 Gigapixels/s

15% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

61.6 Gigatexels/s

81.6 Gigatexels/s

32% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.97 TFLOPS

2.61 TFLOPS

32% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

896

1024

14% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

14% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

283rd of 586

275th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.5

Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon RX 560 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 560 graphics card is better than the Radeon R7 260X in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 560 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 560 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 560 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 560 has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon R7 260X at 115 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 560 is faster than the Radeon R7 260X.