AMD Radeon R7 260X vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

Compare AMD Radeon R7 260X 2 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 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

4311 points

453% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

19 FPS

89 FPS

70 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

64 FPS

53 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

78 FPS

62 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

37 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1500 points

7692 points

412% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

1130 MHz

2% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

1560 MHz

56% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

6 GiB

200% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

104 GB/s

336 GB/s

223% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

115 W

30% slightly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

17.6 Gigapixels/s

99.8 Gigapixels/s

467% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

61.6 Gigatexels/s

224.64 Gigatexels/s

264% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.97 TFLOPS

7.19 TFLOPS

264% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

896

2304

157% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

157% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

284th of 586

116th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.6

Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon RX 5600 XT benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 5600 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon R7 260X in gaming.

The Radeon RX 5600 XT has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 5600 XT also has a significantly 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 5600 XT has significantly more memory with 6 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 R7 260X has a slightly lower TDP at 115 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5600 XT at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 5600 XT is better than the Radeon R7 260X.