Radeon HD 7950 and Radeon R9 260 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7950
Radeon R9 260 OEM
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Bonaire
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2012
December 2013
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1250 MHz
-
Compute units
28
-
Core clock speed
-
1100 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,867 gflops
1,971 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
2,080 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
896
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
85 Watt
Texture fill rate
89.60
61.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
6500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
104.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
-
Number of Eyefinity displays
6
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (12_0)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.3
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
+
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
-