AMD Radeon R7 260X vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

Compare AMD Radeon R7 260X 2 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT 8 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
5943 points
662% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

19 FPS
126 FPS
107 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS
89 FPS
78 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS
110 FPS
94 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS
52 FPS
46 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1500 points
1854 points
23% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz
2055 MHz
86% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz
2635 MHz
163% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB
8 GiB
300% 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
280.3 GB/s
169% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

115 W
53% significantly lower TDP
176 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

17.6 Gigapixels/s
168.6 Gigapixels/s
857% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

61.6 Gigatexels/s
337.3 Gigatexels/s
447% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.97 TFLOPS
10.79 TFLOPS
447% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

896
2048
128% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

56
128
128% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
64
300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

283rd of 586
82nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series
Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2022 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4
4.6

Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon RX 6650 XT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6650 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon R7 260X in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6650 XT has a significantly 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 6650 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6650 XT has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon R7 260X has a significantly lower TDP at 115 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6650 XT at 176 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6650 XT is better than the Radeon R7 260X.

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