Radeon R7 260X and Radeon HD 7950 Boost - video card comparison
Radeon R7 260X
Radeon HD 7950 Boost
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Bonaire
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
June 2012
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
925 MHz
Core clock speed
-
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,971 gflops
3,315 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,080 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
896
1792
Power consumption (TDP)
115 Watt
200 Watt
Texture fill rate
61.60
103.6
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
104 GB/s
240.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (11_1)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-