Radeon R7 260X and Capsaicin - video card comparison

Radeon R7 260X

Capsaicin

Architecture

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)

GPU code name

Bonaire

Capsaicin

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

October 2013

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Bus support

PCIe 3.0

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

1 x 6-pin

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Boost clock speed

1000 MHz

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Floating-point performance

1,971 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

2,080 million

8,900 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

896

4096

Power consumption (TDP)

115 Watt

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Texture fill rate

61.60

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Memory type

GDDR5

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Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

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Memory bus width

128 Bit

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Memory bandwidth

104 GB/s

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Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

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Eyefinity

1

-

HDMI

+

-

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

DirectX® 12

12 (12_0)

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

2.0

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.3

6.5

Vulkan

-

1.2.170

AppAcceleration

-

-

DDMA audio

+

-

Enduro

-

-

FreeSync

1

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

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