AMD Radeon R7 M260 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

Compare AMD Radeon R7 M260 4 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

232 points

4311 points

1758% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

89 FPS

83 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

64 FPS

61 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS

78 FPS

73 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

37 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5767 points

57968 points

905% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5710 points

48131 points

742% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5130 points

65528 points

1177% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5311 points

77765 points

1364% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

940 MHz

1130 MHz

20% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

980 MHz

1560 MHz

59% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

6 GiB

49% 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

32 GB/s

336 GB/s

950% significantly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

7.84 Gigapixels/s

99.8 Gigapixels/s

1172% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

23.52 Gigatexels/s

224.64 Gigatexels/s

855% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

2304

499% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

499% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

700% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

408th 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

DDR3

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.2

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.3

4.6

Radeon R7 M260 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 5600 XT beats the Radeon R7 M260 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 5600 XT 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 5600 XT 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 5600 XT has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 5600 XT is better than the Radeon R7 M260.