AMD Radeon R7 260X vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Compare AMD Radeon R7 260X 2 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24 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
24895 points
3095% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

19 FPS
529 FPS
510 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS
351 FPS
340 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS
477 FPS
461 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS
207 FPS
201 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1500 points
6837 points
355% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz
1855 MHz
68% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz
2500 MHz
150% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB
24 GiB
1100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
384 Bit
200% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

104 GB/s
960 GB/s
823% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

115 W
208% significantly lower TDP
355 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

17.6 Gigapixels/s
480 Gigapixels/s
2627% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

61.6 Gigatexels/s
960 Gigatexels/s
1458% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.97 TFLOPS
61.42 TFLOPS
3016% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

896
6144
585% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

56
384
585% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
192
1100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

283rd of 586
3rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series
Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2022 December

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 7900 XTX comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics card is better than the Radeon R7 260X in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 7900 XTX has a significantly 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 7900 XTX also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon R7 260X has a significantly lower TDP at 115 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7900 XTX at 355 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 7900 XTX is better than the Radeon R7 260X.

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